GAINESVILLE, Ga. — A Gainesville High School baseball player who was hurt in a batting incident is considered brain dead, according to doctors with the Northeast Georgia Medical Center, and his family announced that they will be donating his organs.
In a Wednesday news conference, the surgeon spoke to news reporters in an update on the status of the baseball player, Jeremy Medina, describing his exact medical condition as "neurologically dead." The hospital said it would be holding an honor walk for friends and family at the hospital as he's taken to be operated on.
The Gainesville High School principal told Medina's classmates this morning and told the community that grief counselors will be on campus to help students cope with the news.
The incident happened a little more than two weeks after he was hit in the head with a bat after he accidentally leaned into the batting cage net during hitting drills at the team's indoor facility on Nov. 20.
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Jeremy is a senior and played both pitcher and catcher on Gainesville High School's baseball team in 2022.
His loved ones were heartbroken when the initial incident happened. They previously shared some memories of him -- as his father described him as a leader on and off the field.
"And every time I will tell him, 'You know that not everyone can be like playing sports, working and doing what you do and be able to keep up the grades. Do you know that?' (He says) 'Dad, I don't know, I'm just being me.'"
The father added it has been Jeremy's dream of becoming a professional baseball player and a youth minister. The family asks for continued prayers for their son and has thanked the community for their support.