‘Kind-Hearted Soul’: 14-Year-Old JROTC Cadet Dies During Fitness Competition
A 14-year-old boy from Florida who had been a cadet in the Junior Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) died during a fitness competition. Knox MacEwen was reported to have died from natural causes after…
A 14-year-old boy from Florida who had been a cadet in the Junior Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) died during a fitness competition.
Knox MacEwen was reported to have died from natural causes after collapsing during an event on Saturday held at Everglades High School, a spokeswoman from the Miramar Police Department (MPD) confirmed to the Miami Herald.
MacEwen had been attending the BCPS JROTC Raider Meet, in which around 700 JROTC cadets from high schools within Broward County were competing to be qualified to compete in the state championships, according to the outlet.
“Knox was a kind-hearted soul, an animal lover, and has been a quiet protector of his Mama who’s been recovering from a mean battle with cancer,” Lauren Milam, a friend of the MacEwen family wrote in a Facebook post on Sunday sharing the link to a GoFundMe page.