Thinkstock Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) A high school senior is in a coma after he was hit in the head by a baseball bat in the campus batting cages, school officials said.
Jeremy Medina, a senior at Gainesville High School located approximately 55 miles northeast of Atlanta, Georgia who was a pitcher and catcher for the school’s 2022 baseball team, is currently in a coma following being “accidentally struck in the head by a baseball bat while at the batting cage on campus,” according to a statement from the Gainesville School System published on social media on Wednesday.
Details of the accident, which occurred on Monday afternoon at 1:20 p.m. in the school’s batting cages, were not immediately known and school officials have only confirmed that Medina was left in a coma following the incident.
“Medina remains in a coma at Northeast Georgia Medical Center,” school officials said. “Jeremy and his family are firm believers in Jesus Christ and His redemptive love
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