A community in Pennsylvania mourns the loss of a college baseball player.
Angel Mercado Ocasio died on May 23 at the age of 19, succumbing to a head trauma sustained the previous day. A makeshift wooden dugout he helped build on a ball diamond used by his recreational baseball league in his hometown of Harrisburg, Penn. collapsed on top of him, Fox 43 reported.
At the time of the accident, Angel, his coach and a few other teammates were dismantling the structure they had erected themselves before a game, the newspaper said, adding that the city had recently told them that they had not of permits. build on the property.
“Angel had the biggest heart,” Alejandro Escuderoone of the late player’s close friends, told Fox 43. “He was an innocent kid, I just wonder why it had to be him.”
Mercado-Ocasio was a second baseman for his recreational team and also played baseball at Central Penn College.