She Died Practicing in Extreme Heat. Now Her High School Basketball Coaches Have Been Charged With Murder.
‘DANGEROUS HEAT’
“The tragedy that happened with Imani shouldn’t have happened,” 16-year-old Imani Bell’s dad, Eric Bell, said at a press conference Wednesday.
Two basketball coaches at a magnet charter school in Georgia now face murder charges in connection with the death of 16-year-old Imani Bell, who collapsed and died hours after doing drills for the girls’ varsity team in scorching heat.
A junior at the Elite Scholars Academy, Bell collapsed during a conditioning drill that involved running up football stadium steps in the blistering sun.
Bell’s head basketball coach, Larosa Walker-Asekere, and assistant coach Dwight Palmer were indicted by an Atlanta-area grand jury just weeks before the two-year anniversary of the fateful outdoor basketball practice on Aug. 13, 2019.
That day, temperatures had climbed into the high 90s, with the heat index reaching as high as 106 degrees, causing Bell to pass out during the drill, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family’s lawyers in February against school administrators.
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