TMZ Sports · Aug 14, 2020
Hospitalized With Gunshot Wound
UAB football head coach Bill Clark is asking fans to pray for freshman linebacker Allen Merrick ... after the 19-year-old was hospitalized with a gunshot wound on Thursday
Details on the incident are unclear at this time, other than it happened in Merrick's hometown of Gadsen, Alabama. We're working on it.
Clark made a statement on Merrick's condition on Friday ... saying, "Please pray for the family of Allen Merrick, a young man who joined our UAB Football Family this season."
"Allen was visiting home in Gadsden yesterday when he suffered a gunshot wound. He is at UAB Hospital where I've been with Allen's family, but I do not have a condition I can share at this time."