Minnesota Vikings rookie cornerback Khyree Jackson was killed Saturday morning in a automotive crash in Maryland, police and the workforce stated.

Jackson, 24, was certainly one of three individuals who died in an in a single day three-car crash in Prince George’s County, in accordance with Maryland State Police.

The Vikings launched a press release saying the workforce spoke to Jackson’s household, and is “devastated by the information.”

“I’m heartbroken by the lack of Khyree,” Vikings normal supervisor Kwesi Adofo-Mensah stated within the assertion. “As we bought to know him all through the pre-draft course of, it was clear the targets Khyree wished to perform each professionally and personally. His story was certainly one of resilience. He was taking steps to turn out to be the very best model of himself not only for him, however for individuals who cared about and regarded as much as him.”

Jackson was a fourth-round choice of the Vikings within the 2024 NFL draft. He performed two years at Alabama earlier than ending his faculty profession with one season at Oregon, the place he began at cornerback.

Oregon head soccer coach Dan Lanning paid tribute to Jackson on social media: “I’ll miss your smile. Nice participant higher particular person,” he wrote on X.

Jackson was within the operating to earn a beginning cornerback job on the workforce’s coaching camp, which opens later this month in Eagan, Minnesota.

“I’m perplexed. My coronary heart goes out to Khyree’s household, buddies, teammates and coaches,” Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell stated within the assertion.

Police stated Jackson died on the scene. The opposite victims have been Isaiah Hazel, 23, and Anthony Lytton, Jr., 24.

Hazel performed faculty soccer at Maryland and Charlotte, and Lytton performed at Florida State and Penn State.

The three received state championships collectively at Dr. Henry A. Smart Jr. Excessive College in Maryland, in accordance with On3.com.

They have been in the identical car on the time of the crash. Hazel was driving, and Jackson and Lytton have been passengers, police stated.

Investigators imagine the driving force of a second car touring north tried to alter lanes “at a excessive price of velocity” once they struck the automotive pushed by Hazel and a 3rd car.

No person was injured within the second or third autos.

Investigators say alcohol may need been a contributing issue within the crash, and costs are pending “the investigation and session with the Prince George’s County State’s Lawyer’s Workplace.”

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