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SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) -- Former San Francisco 49ers backmost volition wage for an autarkic autopsy for a pupil recovered hanging from a histrion connected the field of a Mississippi university. Demartravion "Trey" Reed's assemblage was recovered astatine 7:05 a.m. connected Monday. Sept. 15., according to field constabulary astatine Delta State University successful Cleveland, Mississippi.
Investigators said determination was nary grounds of foul play and officials ruled the student's decease arsenic a suicide. However, Reed's household has called for an autarkic autopsy.
"We volition question answers independently from Delta State University and from the coroner's bureau and, if request be, autarkic from the authorities coroner's bureau due to the fact that we request reply arsenic to what happened to Trey Reed," said household lawyer Vaness J. Jones successful a connection reported by USA Today.
On Friday, civilian rights lawyer Ben Crump announced that the Colin Kaepernick "Know Your Rights Camp Autopsy Initiative" would screen the outgo of a second, autarkic autopsy for Reed. Reed's family, according to Crump, volition question the autopsy arsenic soon arsenic Reed's assemblage is merchandise by the authorities aesculapian examiner.
"Trey's decease evoked the corporate representation of a assemblage that has suffered a historical coiled implicit many, galore years and many, galore deaths," said Crump. "Peace volition travel lone by getting to the truth. We convey Colin Kaepernick for supporting this grieving household and the origin of justness and truth."
Kaepernick spent six seasons with the 49ers aft being a second-round prime successful 2011. However, helium has not played an NFL crippled since Jan. 1, 2017, aft helium began kneeling connected the sideline astatine games during the nationalist anthem to protestation societal injustice and constabulary brutality.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
