"They took a great, a great person who wanted to help the community and wanted to better us as people," friend and fellow coach Heith Mayes said.įriends and family identified Hickmon as the man killed during a Little League football game in Lancaster Saturday evening.
The shooting happened as a children’s football team practiced below, CBS Philadelphia reported.Īnd on 31 July two adults and a six-year-old were shot non-fatally during a pee wee football game at an Oakland high school, ABC 7 news reported.Lancaster, Texas - People are mourning the loss of Mike Hickmon, a Little League coach who many called a pillar of the Lancaster community. On 22 April this year, a man shot two other men in the stands of a football field near Temple University in Philadelphia, both men survived the shooting. Hickmon’s killing is not an isolated incident. I mean, what can you expect? nine, they babies?” Heith Mayes, a friend and fellow coach who was present at the time of the shooting, told CBS Dallas-Fort Worth. They’ve been crying, worried, don’t want to play football. His killing not only leaves a hole in the family it also has traumatized the children who bore witness to the gunfire. We have a wife that is heartbroken and a family that is going through, and it’s very difficult, and we all need to be praying for them,” Keith Hall, pastor of the church of which Hickmon was a member, told NBC Dallas-Fort Worth. “We have two lovely children who don’t have their father in their life now. Hickmon was a loving husband and father who was dedicated to serving the young athletes he worked with, local news reports say. Aqib Talib was named last month as a contributor for Prime Video’s Thursday Night Football. Local news reported Yaqub Talib and Aqib Talib, a five-time Pro Bowler who announced his retirement in 2020, are coaches for North Dallas United Bobcats, a youth football team.
Birdsall declined to elaborate on what Talib’s side of the story is. Yaqub Talib’s attorney, Clark Birdsall, said his client “regrets the tragic loss of life but self surrendered this morning so that he may have the chance to say his side of the story”.
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