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Former Prep Star, Florida A&M Receiver Wilson Passes Away
Bruce Williamson,
The Jefferson County football team will wear a sea- son-long patch on its jerseys in memory of former receiver Robert Wilson.
Wilson, who starred at Jefferson County, Florida A&M and played five seasons in the NFL, died Tuesday in Tallahassee from complica- tions following a stroke. He was 46.
“It was a big shock to everybody,” Jefferson County football coach Ira Reynolds said.
“I got to know him when he was at FAMU and fol- lowed him in the NFL. Our principal met the team today.
ROBERT WILSON
We are dedicating our season to Robert and will wear a patch of his jersey number for the rest of the season.”
Wilson, a Monticello na-
tive, played wide receiver for FAMU from 1993-1996 under coaches Ken Riley and Billy Joe.
Wilson, a 5-foot-11, 175- pounder, helped lead the Rattlers to consecutive MEAC championships in 1995 and 1996 and to the school’s first FCS playoff ap- pearance.
The steady Wilson caught 218 passes for 3,027 yards and 23 touchdowns at FAMU and was inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame in 2016.
"Robert was a super-tal- ented kid and off the field he was a soft-hearted, soft-spo- ken guy who everybody liked being around," said Vaughn Wilson, a former assistant athletic director and football player at FAMU.
Bruce Williamson, 49, a long-running voice of The Temptations, has died from coronavirus.
The R&B singer died Sun- day evening at Mountain View Hospital in Las Vegas, his business manager, Anta Ealy, confirms to reporters. He was diagnosed with COVID-19 in late August, Ealy says, weeks after having his gallbladder removed.
"There's no words in the world that can express how I feel right now," Bruce Alan Williamson, Jr., the singer’s son, wrote in an emo- tional post on Monday. "I love you Daddy thank you for being awesome thank you for being loving thank you for being Who You Are. ... We will meet again."
“We mourn the loss of one of our brothers,” original
BRUCE WILLIAMSON
Temptation Otis Williams told USA TODAY in a state- ment on Monday. “Once you are a Temptation, you are al- ways a Temptation.”
Later Monday, Williamson's son posted a live video of himself cap- tioned, "Hurt is not the word for it," in which he sang gospel songs and reminisced about his father.
"My dad was a great dude," he said.
Former Lead Singer Of
The Temptations, Dies
At 49 From COVID-19
Colorado School Calls Police On Boy, 12, For Having Toy Gun During Virtual Class
A 12-year-old Colorado boy was suspended for five days from his school for “wav- ing” a toy gun around during a virtual class. However, both he and his parents assert that the toy was moved from one side of his computer screen to the other.
Seventh-grader Isaiah El- liott was participating in an art class on his third day of distance learning on Aug. 27 when his teacher saw the toy on the screen. The vice princi- pal of Grand Mountain School in Colorado Springs sent an email to his parents saying that the boy was “extremely distracted.” The vice-principal also noted that there had been
“a very serious issue with waving around a toy gun.”
That vice principal, Keri Lindaman, in- formed the El-
liotts that she Isaiah Elliott, right, and the gun he is ac- had called school cused of waving during a virtual class.
resource officers
from the local county sheriff’s office to conduct a health and wellness check on the boy at the family home.
The original report notes that El Paso County Sheriff’s officers revealed footage of the incident to the boy’s father, Curtis Elliott, videotape that had been recorded by the in-
structor and shown to them in the vice principal’s office.
His official notice of sus- pension states “Isaiah dis- played and waved a firearm facsimile during a virtual classroom on Aug. 27, 2020.” But his father, upon viewing tape, said the boy, sitting on their sofa, had merely moved the plastic toy — labeled “Zombie Hunter” — from one side to the other, not wave it in a threatening manner.
Also, the Elliotts said that they had not permitted for their son to be recorded. The school noted that it was not their “current practice” to record classes, but said they had just added a new platform and were still becoming famil- iar with the system.
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