![]() ![]() He said they don’t know if they are doing an autopsy. “His dad said that the initial report was that they think he had a heart attack. ![]() This morning his dad called me at about 8 o’clock and said that they had found him and he was dead.”īower was found dead in his bed. I phoned his dad, and his dad said, ‘Well, I’ll just wait to see if I hear from him.’ Friday, nobody had heard from him, so I phoned again. “I couldn’t get ahold of him on Wednesday or Thursday. His daughter had just moved out here and he asked me if I could keep an eye on her,” Fielding said. Nearly died last year once,” said his best friend Devon Fielding, who wrestled under various names for 10 years.įielding talked to Bower Sunday or Monday of last week. “Shayne’s been having major health problems the last two years. He was 42.īower had major health problems over the last few years, mostly related to his back, as he talked about in a 2004 interview with SLAM! Wrestling. "The school can preach all it wants that they're antibullying and place it on their website, but they are sending a message to this kid and the rest of the student body that this behavior is acceptable," said Elbially.Īdditional footage released by popular TikToker shows the white student bullying Pritmani in the moments leading up to the altercation.Calgary’s Biff Wellington (Shayne Bower), who was a major player in the ’80s Stampede Wrestling and a regular in Japan for years, has died. Marwa Elbially, the attorney for the Pritmani family, denies the accusations and says the violence should never have happened. "We are confident that after all the facts are revealed, the case will be closed and no further action will be taken other than what the school has already decided was appropriate," Lassiter said in a statement. Mark Lassiter, the attorney for the family of the other student, told NBC 5 the student was not at fault and was only responding to vulgar and violent threats against his family. Student's Lawyer Claims He was Responding to Threats Against His Family The email said the incident is being investigated and addressed by the school and the district according to the CISD Student Code of Conduct. Bullying, both verbal and physical, as well as physical acts of aggression are never acceptable and do not align with who we are at CISD and our core values." Brad Hunt said in part, "Coppell ISD is aware of a video circulating on social media showing an incident at Coppell Middle School North involving a physical altercation between two students. In an email to parents, Coppell ISD's Superintendent Dr. Shaan appears to briefly lose consciousness at the end of the neck choke maneuver."Īccording to a Twitter user, the aggressor's father, Sam Wellington, ran for the Coppell school board and used his connections to get his son out of trouble. "This technique restricts blood flow to a person's brain by compressing the sides of the neck where the carotid arteries are located. "Shaan's aggressor in the video is on the wrestling team and can be seen carrying out a very dangerous carotid restraint on Shaan's neck," the petition's description read. In the petition, which has garnered close to 200,000 signatures, Kukreja says they despite providing the video evidence to school authorities they refused "to file a citation because school administration asked it not be written, as there have been too many bullying complaints lately." The police also refused to file a complaint. She even started an online petition demanding the school to take strict action against the alleged aggressor, who she claims is on the school's wrestling team. ![]() Kukreja added that the school handed down a harsher punishment to their son claiming it was his fault by suspending him for three days while the other student only received a one-day suspension. I cried many times watching it," said Sonika Kukreja, mother of the alleged victim, in a statement to NBC 5. I couldn't sleep for three nights straight. School Gives Victim Harsher Punishment, Claims it was His Fault ![]()
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