Eagles’ Jalen Hurts Pays for Funeral of Slain HS Football Player, per Report

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts is paying the funeral expenses of a slain high school football player from Hurts’s hometown of Houston, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network.

Jarvon Coles, an 18-year-old football player from North Shore High School in Houston, was shot and killed at a house party in Humble, a Houston suburb, on March 9. North Shore High School is a rival school of Hurts’s alma mater, Channelview High.

Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts reportedly is covering the funeral expenses for a slain high school football player in his hometown of Houston.

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Officers responded to a welfare check call after reports of underage drinking at a rental property, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, per KHOU-TV. After arriving on the scene, Coles was found unresponsive. EMS attempted to perform CPR before realizing that Coles had suffered a gunshot wound.

Coles was taken from the scene to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Officers determined that during the party, a car with several people drove by the property and opened fire. To date, no arrests have been made in the killing.