{"id":427675,"date":"2015-12-09T18:33:35","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T00:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=427675"},"modified":"2015-12-10T17:15:14","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T23:15:14","slug":"alto-football-player-did-not-die-from-an-aneurysm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=427675","title":{"rendered":"Alto Football Player Did Not Die From an Aneurysm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/12\/Camron-Matthews.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-427676\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/12\/Camron-Matthews-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Cam&#039;ron Matthews\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-427676\" \/><\/a>ALTO &#8211; An Alto football player did not die from an aneurysm as previously thought. KETK reports an autopsy report on Cam&#8217;ron Matthews, 16, released by Smith County Justice of the Peace James Cowart, said the death was ruled an accident caused by &#8220;anoxic encephalopathy following resuscitation from cardiac arrest from unspecified blunt impact.&#8221; Anoxic encephalopathy is a condition where the brain can not get enough oxygen due to lack of blood flow. Officials also stated he suffered from bleeding and swelling of the brain.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>An aneurysm was first thought to be the cause of death of Matthews, who collapsed on the sidelines during a home game against Price-Carlisle on October 16. He died the following day. The rest of the game was called off.  Alto School Superintendent Kerry Birdwell told KTRE-TV in Lufkin that the school&#8217;s athletic director was with Matthews&#8217; family when a doctor informed them of Matthews&#8217; original diagnosis. Birdwell says the doctor told the family the aneurysm may not be football-related.  An aneurysm is a blood-filled bulge or balloon in a blood vessel wall that can rupture.  <\/p>\n<p>But the autopsy, which was performed in Tyler on October 20 and October 21, shed different light on the boy&#8217;s death. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALTO &#8211; An Alto football player did not die from an aneurysm as previously thought. KETK reports an autopsy report on Cam&#8217;ron Matthews, 16, released by Smith County Justice of the Peace James Cowart, said the death was ruled an accident caused by &#8220;anoxic encephalopathy following resuscitation from cardiac arrest from unspecified blunt impact.&#8221; Anoxic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=427675\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alto Football Player Did Not Die From an Aneurysm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":427676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 08:08:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427750,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427675\/revisions\/427750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/427676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}