A crowd of hundreds gathered in a public park Wednesday night in Trussville to pray for Hewitt-Trussville High School baseball player Grayson Pope, who was seriously injured when a tree fell on his golf cart on Tuesday afternoon during a thunderstorm:
A crowd of hundreds gathered in a public park Wednesday night in Trussville to pray for Hewitt-Trussville High School baseball player Grayson Pope, who was seriously injured when a tree fell on his golf cart on Tuesday afternoon during a thunderstorm.
“I just remember hearing the crack of a tree,” said Brett Moseley, one of the four baseball players who were playing golf at the Country Club when a thunderstorm came over and lightning hit a tree, knocking it down on top of a golf cart driven by Pope. “He was driving and I was in the passenger seat,” Moseley said.
“He was just laying there,” said Moseley. “When I grabbed him out of the cart, I was carrying him and I sat him down. Nobody’s phone would work because it was so wet, so I used Siri to call 911.”“It was super muddy,” Moseley said.He has been under observation for possible brain swelling at UAB and undergoing tests including magnetic resonance imaging to determine the extent of the injury.
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