Minnesota Vikings rookie cornerback Khyree Jackson died in an car mishap on Saturday morning.
“We are crushed by the unused of Khyree Jackson’s passing taking after an overnight car accident,” the Vikings said. “Our considerations are with Khyree’s family, companions, partners and coaches, as well as all the casualties of this awful accident.”
Jackson joined the Vikings within the fourth circular of the NFL Draft on April 27 from Oregon after the cornerback had played the past two seasons at Alabama.
“Alabama grieves the misfortune of previous student-athlete Khyree Jackson,” the Crimson Tide football program said via its official Twitter account on Saturday evening. “Our contemplations and supplications are with his family and friends.”
Agreeing to the Maryland State Police report, Jackson was a traveler in a Avoid Charger that was included in a three-vehicle wreck in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. State Troopers reacted to the mishap at 3:
14 a.m. EDT Saturday.
The preparatory examination shows the driver of an Infiniti endeavored to alter paths whereas traveling at a tall rate of speed but struck the Charger and a Chevrolet Impala. The Charger was constrained off the street and hit a few tree stumps some time recently coming to rest, the police report said.
Whereas the inhabitants of the other two vehicles were unhurt, the three tenants of the Charger, counting driver Isaiah Hazel and traveler Anthony Lytton Jr., were murdered.
Lytton and Hazel were colleagues of Jackson’s at Dr. Henry Shrewd Jr. Tall School in Upper Marlboro, James Crepea of the Oregonian detailed.
Agents think liquor may have been a contributing calculate within the crash and charges are pending, the Maryland State Police detailed.
“I am completely pulverized by this news,” Minnesota coach Kevin O’Connell said in a explanation discharged by the group. “Khyree brought a infectious vitality to our office and our group. His certainty and locks in identity promptly drew his colleagues to him. In our brief time together, it was evident Khyree was planning to create into a colossal professional football player, but what was more noteworthy was his want to gotten to be the most excellent individual he may be for his family and those around him. I am at a misfortune for words. My heart goes out to Khyree’s family, companions, partners and coaches.”
Jackson had marked his to begin with master contract and taken part within the Vikings’ offseason program. He was on summer break when he kicked the bucket at age 24. Jackson was planned to report to his to begin with NFL preparing camp on July 21 with the rest of Minnesota’s new kids on the block.
“I am shattered by the misfortune of Khyree,” Vikings common manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah said in a articulation discharged by the team. “As we ought to know him all through the pre-draft handle, it was clear the objectives Khyree needed to achieve both professionally and actually. His story was one of versatility. He was taking steps to ended up the leading adaptation of himself not fair for him, but for those who cared about and looked up to him. Khyree’s identity captured each room he was in. I’m crushed that his life and everything he had before him has been cut brief. My contemplations are with Khyree’s family and companions, those who played with and coached him in college, and his colleagues and coaches here at the Vikings.”
After tall school, Jackson went to Arizona Western. But he never played there. The achy to visit the family youngster returned to Maryland and got a work at Harris Waver. But Jackson wasn’t through with football, and to reach the NFL, he played wide collector at Fortification Scott Community College in Kansas, at that point exchanged to protective back at East Mississippi Community College. That driven to 21 diversions and one begin at Alabama some time recently he exchanged to Oregon, where he recorded three interceptor in his as it were season with the Ducks.
“We are profoundly disheartened by the news of Khyree’s passing,” Vikings owners Mark and Zygi Wilf said in a explanation discharged by the team. “Khyree had an greatly shinning future ahead of him as a player, and it was clear he was devoted to being a huge individual who made a positive contrast in people’s lives. We are considering approximately Khyree’s family and companions and all individuals of the Minnesota Vikings taking after this destroying loss.”
