Football Player Who Collapsed at Practice Returns to School

MARSHALL� An East Texas eighth grader is returning to school after he collapsed at his junior high football practice September 21. According to KETK and the Longview News-Journal, Khalil Wallace, 13, returns to classes at Marshall Junior High School after spending the last several weeks as a patient at LSU Medical Center in Shreveport and Children’s Hospital in Dallas. After the youth collapsed, relatives said coaches began CPR until firefighters arrived to resuscitate the him with a defibrillator. He was then taken to a Longview hospital, where he was stabilized before being taken to Shreveport and eventually to Dallas.

Khalil’s mother, Shontisha, said Khalil will have to wear an implantable cardioverter defibrillator �indefinitely.” There has not been a complete diagnosis on the cause of Khalil’s collapse. Doctors are continuing to monitor him, and plans call for him to wear the device until they get a definite answer.