Timeyin Amatosero-Keke
Officials say a basketball player at a West Virginia college who died had just finished a pickup game when he collapsed. He bent over to pick up his things after play and then slumped. Reports say he had no medical history of hypertension which may lead to cardiac arrest after a strenuous exercise
Nothing has yet been established as cause of death. His school mates and friends said they were still in shock because he had not manifested any symptom of a sick person.
Bluefield State College Athletic Director John Lewis tells news outlets that 24-year-old Timeyin Amatosero-Keke died Monday night. Lewis says an athletic trainer told him Amatosero-Keke, of Lagos, Nigeria, was packing up to leave a pickup game session at a high school when he collapsed.
Lewis says Amatosero-Keke was taken to a hospital and died. His cause of death is unclear.
Amatosero-Keke was a transfer student majoring in civil engineering and technology at the school. This was his second year at Bluefield State.
College President Marsha Krotseng said a vigil was held Tuesday. Krotseng says counseling is available this week for students, faculty and staff.
