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Elijah Jordan Brown-Garcia, a sixth-grade student at KIPP Rise Academy in Newark, was running drills Feb. 10 when he collapsed and became unresponsive.

N.J. boy, 12, dies after collapsing during no-contact football practice

New Jersey 12-year-old dies after collapsing at football practice

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