Family of Clayton County basketball player who died after workout gets record settlement - WSB Atlanta

CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — The household of a Clayton County hoops subordinate who died aft participating successful workout drills during utmost vigor reached a grounds colony with the schoolhouse district.

Imani Bell’s household agreed to a $10 cardinal colony with Clayton County Schools. Attorneys for the Bell household says the colony is 1 of the largest of its benignant successful precocious schoolhouse athletics history. The gym astatine Elite Sports Academy volition besides beryllium renamed successful Bell’s representation astatine 4 p.m.

What the Bell household has to accidental astir the grounds settlement, for Channel 2 Action News astatine 4:00 p.m.

Channel 2′s Tom Jones has been pursuing Bell’s lawsuit since his sources archetypal told him astir her decease connected Aug. 13, 2019.

Bell’s parents said the 16-year-old teen was forced to execute conditioning drills outdoors connected 1 of the hottest days of the summertime successful 2019. The vigor scale made it adjacent hotter.

A Georgia Bureau of Investigation autopsy from 2019 indicated Bell suffered from hyperthermia and rhabdomyolysis aft exercising successful temperatures that reached arsenic precocious arsenic 97 degrees with a vigor scale of 103 degrees.

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Eric Bell, Imani’s father, told Jones the coaches were negligent and that idiosyncratic needed to beryllium held accountable. He said helium is simply a manager arsenic good and would ne'er nonstop his students into the searing vigor that led to his daughter’s death.

In July 2021, a expansive assemblage indicted Larosa Walker-Asekere and Dwight Palmer connected 2nd grade murder, kid cruelty successful the 2nd degree, involuntary manslaughter and reckless conduct. According to Bell’s family, Walker-Asekere and Palmer were 2 of her coaches.

Attorney Justin Miller said the charges were immense quality since coaches aren’t usually charged aft incidents similar this.

“This is lone the 2nd clip successful past a manager has been charged successful this mode and the archetypal clip a manager has ever been charged with murder,” he said past August.

2 coaches charged with murder, kid cruelty successful Clayton County hoops player’s decease A expansive assemblage has indicted 2 radical successful the decease of a Clayton County hoops subordinate who died aft participating successful workout drills during utmost heat.

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