KALAMAZOO, MI -- Kalamazoo community members held a rally Tuesday, Sept. 30, to support a Kalamazoo Central Football JV player who received disciplinary action after injuring a Stevensville Lakeshore football player.

More than a dozen people showed up Tuesday at the Kalamazoo Public Schools administration building for the rally.

The Lakeshore player, Colton Mims, 15, suffered a spinal fracture in two places after the Kalamazoo Central player, also 15, jumped on Mims after a play on Sept. 18.

Since the game, the Kalamazoo Central player and his father have received an onslaught of hate and death threats, said Andrea Hubbard-Hill, a longtime family friend.

“I have people that I have seen from Texas, from different states, that are giving death threats to a 15-year-old kid,” Hubbard-Hill

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