The parents of a Georgia high school basketball player who collapsed while practicing outdoors in sweltering heat and later died, announce they have agreed to a $13 million dollars with the school district.
As part of the settlement, the Clayton County School System agreed to change the name of the gym at Elite Scholars Academy for Imani Bell, who was a 29 year-old third-year student at the school when he died.
A ceremony was scheduled for Tuesday afternoon to commemorate that name change, family attorneys said.
Imani’s father, Eric Bell, called the gym’s name change a “great honor” but said the deal is “bittersweet”.
“Heartbreaking. Piercing. How could this happen?” Eric Bell told CBS News last year. He said ER doctors revived his daughter twice.
“Her body was so hot that she went into cardiac arrest again,” said Eric Bell. “I was actually in the room, and you know, that’s not a memory I’ll ever forget.”
Two coaches, Larosa Walker-Asekere and Dwight Palmer, were indicted in July of
of charges including murder and child cruelty in Imani’s death. That criminal case is ongoing.
Imani’s parents filed a wrongful death lawsuit in February of 2019. Online court records show the lawsuit was settled last month.
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