COLUMBUS, Ohio — As the seniors on the Ohio State football team were honored Saturday, before their final home game, pictures of Kosta Karageorge flashed on the video board. Karageorge, a walk-on and a fifth-year senior, went for a walk around 2 a.m. Wednesday and had not been seen since.
On Sunday afternoon, his body was found in a trash bin near his apartment on Sunday afternoon, a Columbus Police spokesman told reporters. Karageorge, 22, died from what appeared to be self-inflicted gunshot wound, accoring to the police. The police also said that they had recovered a firearm at the scene.
Karageorge’s family had indicated that his disappearance may have had something to do with his concussion history. He reportedly sent a text message to his mother, apologizing if he had been an “embarrassment” and blaming it on concussions.
In a phone interview on Friday, his older sister, Sophia Karageorge, said that he had sustained a concussion as recently as September and had had “at least four or five” concussions in his life.