Legal Challenges Could Emerge from Missouri Player’s Death

Any day now, the Boone County, Missouri medical examiner is expected to get the tests back that will help her definitively determine the reason that University of Missouri redshirt freshman football player Aaron O’Neal died July 12 after an off-season, voluntary workout.   The legal questions, however, may take much longer to unravel.   These questions have surfaced in the wake of O’Neal’s death, fueled by heightened sensitivity to such incidents. In 2001, three Division I studen