Former Florida player found dead in his car
Twenty-year-old Avery Atkins, a former Florida and Bethune-Cookman football player, was found dead in his car Thursday in Port Orange, Florida. The car was parked inside the garage of his aunt’s house, and police are considering the death to be suspicious. He leaves behind one child.
Atkins tripped a few times along the path to a successful college football career. He was released from the Gators by Urban Meyer after being charged with domestic violence battery. He then transferred to Bethune-Cookman, playing in only 3 games in the 2006 season before being released from his scholarship there.
He’d racked up some serious charges along the way, as so many troubled young men seem to do - two separate charges of domestic violence battery on the mother of his child, aggravated battery and drug-related charges, most recently on Monday for possession of crack cocaine.
This is undoubtedly a tragic end to what likely was a young life once full of hope and dreams of the future.
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