<p>Former NFL player Keion Carpenter, died on Thursday after he suffered from an injury while on vacation with his family in Florida.</p>
<p>The 39-year-old was most known for playing on both the Buffalo Bills, and the Atlanta Falcons.</p>
<p>According to the <em><a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/nfl/bal-keion-carpenter-former-woodlawn-high-nfl-player-dies-at-39-20161229-story.html">Baltimore Sun</a></em>, he collapsed and remained in a coma for 24 hours before being pronounced dead at the Jackson South Community Hospital.</p>
<p>According to his cousin he had an accident while playing with his son. She said, &#8220;They were running to the car when (Carpenter) slipped, fell, hit his head and slipped into a coma. It was just a freak accident.”</p>
<p>News about him being hospitalized started to spread late on Wednesday.</p>
<p>His family later released a statement which read, &#8220;It is with regret that we as a family announce that at 6:47 am Keion Eric Carpenter was pronounced dead, at Jackson South Community Hospital in Miami, Florida. Keion collapsed while on a family vacation and remained in a coma for 24 hours. Keion(&#8216;s) remains will be flown back to Baltimore for burial.”</p>
<p>His college coach, Frank Beamer, said in a statement that &#8220;Keion was one of the rocks around which we built our program at Virginia Tech in the 1990s.&#8221;</p>
<p>He also did amazing work through his Carpenter House charity in Maryland, which is used to help families from disadvantaged backgrounds.</p>
<p>Keion Carpenter leaves behind his wife Tonia Carpenter, and four children.</p>
<p>We send our condolences to his family.</p>
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<p><strong>Source</strong>: <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/nfl/bal-keion-carpenter-former-woodlawn-high-nfl-player-dies-at-39-20161229-story.html">http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/nfl/bal-keion-carpenter-former-woodlawn-high-nfl-player-dies-at-39-20161229-story.html</a></p>
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