“He said, ‘No, I want to go out for football. Mama, I can hit ’em, I can hit ’em.'” Wilkins’ mother, Regena Johnson-Adams, told WDHN-TV, adding her son loved baseball and basketball too. Tuesday afternoon temperatures in the area reached 96 degrees, according to National Weather Service data. Semaj Wilkins, a freshman at New Brockton High School, passed away during football practice on Tuesday in Alabama. The 14-year-old had recently updated his Facebook profile with a picture of himself on the Arnold Woodham, the Coffee County Coroner, stated that Wilkins experienced a medical emergency on the pitch and was given CPR before being transported to a hospital. “I panicked. I grabbed everything I could think of and ran out…. And I got to that pitch, and I was devastated because they wouldn’t let me get to my baby,” Adams said to WDHN regarding the call she received regarding the incident. The cause of death is still unknown, but Woodham mentioned that Wilkins had collapsed earlier during until we have the final report.” To honour Wilkins’ mother, New Brockton High School will hold a vigil on Friday night at its football stadium. “Semaj was a young man who brought joy and inspiration to his peers, teammates, coaches, and faculty members. His loss will be deeply felt by everyone who knew him,” Coffee County Schools Superintendent Kelly Cobb wrote in a Facebook statement. New Brockton is a small town in southeast Alabama, about 1,400 people, close to the Florida border. “The New Brockton community is very small. Being in a small rural town in southeast Alabama, everybody knows everybody,” Woodham said.
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