Jury gets case of Ky. football coach charged in high school player’s heat-related death

Jury gets case of Ky. coach in player death case

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Kentucky jury has gotten the case of a former high school football coach charged in the heat-related death of a player who collapsed during a practice last year.

The case went to the jury Thursday afternoon after prosecutors and defense attorneys delivered closing statements.

Former Pleasure Ridge Park coach David Jason Stinson is charged with reckless homicide and wanton endangerment in the death of 15-year-old Max Gilpin. The teen collapsed at a practice at his suburban Louisville school in August 2008 and died at a hospital three days later.

Prosecutors say Stinson ran a brutal practice and ignored signs that players were getting sick the day Gilpin collapsed. Stinson’s defense says the practice wasn’t unusually hard.