NY high school football player dies after collapsing at practice
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A 16-year-old high school football player in New York City is dead after collapsing during practice Monday, officials said.
The teen's father says Miles Kirkland-Thomas collapsed Monday morning during practice for Staten Island's Curtis High School. A group of firefighters preformed CPR on Kirkland for several minutes, but he was pronounced dead at a hospital.
"They did chest compressions for about 10 minutes and then loaded him into the ambulance," one witness told The Staten Island Advance.
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Jamar Thomas tells the New York Daily News his 6-foot-2, 320-pound son had passed a physical in July and the family was not aware of any pre-existing conditions.
Thomas says an autopsy will be conducted.
The Associated Press contributed to this report
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