A Pennsylvania neighborhood is mourning the loss of a school baseball participant.
Angel Mercado-Ocasio died Could 23 at age 19, succumbing to a traumatic head harm he sustained a day earlier. A makeshift wood dugout he helped construct at a ball subject utilized by his recreation baseball league in his native Harrisburg, Penn. collapsed on high of him, Fox 43 reported.
On the time of the accident, Angel, his coach and some different teammates have been taking down the construction, which they put up themselves earlier than a recreation, the outlet stated, including that the metropolis had just lately instructed them they did not have a allow to construct on the property.
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“Angel had the most important coronary heart,” Alejandro Escudero, one among the late participant’s shut mates, instructed Fox 43. “He was an harmless child, I simply surprise why it needed to be him.”
Mercado-Ocasio was a second baseman for his recreation workforce, and likewise performed baseball at Central Penn Faculty.
