By Associated Press - Wednesday, February 6, 2019

NEW YORK (AP) - The New York City medical examiner says a 16-year-old boy who died after collapsing during a high school basketball practice was born with a heart problem.

Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Barbara Sampson said on Wednesday that Lenny Pierre had a major vessel in an abnormal location, resulting in cardiac arrest.

The teen collapsed in December at John Bowne High School in Flushing, Queens.



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