{"id":230759,"date":"2025-07-23T22:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T22:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/230759\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T22:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T22:20:11","slug":"high-school-football-player-dies-after-medical-emergency-at-practice-dekalb-school-district-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/230759\/","title":{"rendered":"High school football player dies after medical emergency at practice, DeKalb school district says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) &#8211; A 15-year-old high school football player died Wednesday after experiencing a medical emergency at practice the day prior, according to the DeKalb County school district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Mikah King, a sophomore at Arabia Mountain High School, was taken to the hospital and died hours later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The district said they have grief counselors at the school to support the students and staff. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cOur thoughts and prayers are with the family and school during this difficult time,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No other details were provided, including his cause of King\u2019s death. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In 2019, an Arabia Mountain dancer died after collapsing on the track during a training exercise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Check back with Atlanta News First for updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WANF. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) &#8211; A 15-year-old high school football player died Wednesday after experiencing a medical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[47398,47401,47407,787,47394,47400,47406,13126,7,8606,47399,47402,47405,47393,47392,47395,47397,47396,10454,47404,47403],"class_list":{"0":"post-230759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-arabia-mountain","9":"tag-arabia-mountain-football","10":"tag-arabia-mountain-high-student-dies","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-dekalb-county-high-school-football-player-dead","13":"tag-dekalb-county-news","14":"tag-dekalb-schools","15":"tag-dekalb-county","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-football-player","18":"tag-football-player-death","19":"tag-football-player-mikah-king","20":"tag-football-practice-death","21":"tag-high-school-football-player-dead","22":"tag-high-school-player-dead","23":"tag-mikah-king","24":"tag-mikah-king-dead","25":"tag-mikah-king-football","26":"tag-newsbreak-app","27":"tag-student-death","28":"tag-who-died"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}