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Jap Michigan soccer recruit Elijah Berman was killed in a motorbike crash involving a semitruck Tuesday night, in keeping with officers. He was simply 17.
Berman, a member of the faculty soccer staff’s 2026 recruiting class, was using a 2006 Suzuki DL1000 in Franklin, Ohio, when he was struck by a semitruck at round 5:12 p.m., the Ohio State Freeway Patrol mentioned in a information launch.
An Jap Michigan Eagles helmet and shoulder pads earlier than a recreation towards the Western Michigan Broncos Oct. 8, 2022, at Waldo Stadium in Kalamazoo, Mich. (Getty Photos)
In response to regulation enforcement, the truck, pushed by 41-year-old Anthony Allen of Roseville, Michigan, was coming off a ramp from Interstate 75 north when the truck “struck the bike within the intersection.” The semitruck additionally hit a raised median divider earlier than overturning.
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Berman was transported to a hospital, the place he succumbed to his accidents. Allen obtained therapy for non-life-threatening accidents.
Police mentioned the crash stays below investigation.
Information of Berman’s demise shocked his hometown neighborhood and the faculty soccer neighborhood.
Jap Michigan Eagles head coach Chris Creighton throughout a recreation towards the Toledo Rockets Nov. 2, 2024, at Rynearson Stadium on Crosby Area in Ypsilanti, Mich. (Steven King/Icon Sportswire through Getty Photos)
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“We’re mourning the passing of Elijah Berman,” Jap Michigan head coach Chris Creighton mentioned in a put up on X.
“Our ideas & prayers are along with his mom Heather, present teammates, household & buddies. Elijah was extremely gifted, but it was his massive coronary heart, infectious smile, & superior character that made us fall in love with him. RIP Elijah.”
Berman was a scholar at Julienne Catholic Excessive Faculty, the place he was a member of the college’s soccer and observe groups.
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“Eli knew what it meant to be an Eagle and made an influence wherever and all over the place he went. He was a pacesetter on the soccer subject and observe, an Eagle Ambassador, an enormous brother in our Little Sibs program, and a powerful scholar with an enormous character. He had simply accepted a proposal to chase his desires and play school soccer at Jap Michigan College,” the college mentioned in an announcement on Fb.
Jap Michigan College’s Rynearson Soccer Stadium. (Getty Photos)
“In the present day, and within the days, weeks, and months that comply with, we ask our neighborhood to please preserve Eli’s household, buddies, and all who cherished him in your prayers as we maintain on to one another throughout this heartbreaking time. Could God’s peace encompass us all, particularly #55.”
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