An already tragic story of a deceased Ohio State football player has seen a sad and sobering layer added to it.
Around Thanksgiving of this past year, the family of Kosta Karageorge filed missing person’s reports with multiple police departments. Four days after Karageorge was initially reported missing, the walk-on defensive lineman was found dead in a dumpster near his residence, the victim of what was determined to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Shortly before Karageorge’s disappearance, he sent text messages to his mother apologizing for being “an embarrassment,” alluding to potential concussion issues for the Buckeye wrestler-turned-football player. His sister stated that there were “some extenuating circumstances” prior to his disappearance that led the family “to believe he was upset,” which prompted his leaving his apartment the night he disappeared.
Karageorge and his girlfriend reportedly broke up shortly before he went missing. From the Associated Press:
It’s believed that, shortly after sending those text messages to his girlfriend, Karageorge climbed into the dumpster where his body was found and shot himself once in the head.
