VIRGINIA BEACH — Sadness and shock spread throughout the Beach District football community Sunday morning after people learned about the sudden death of Bayside coach Jon White.

White, 43, was a former All-Beach District linebacker for Bayside who helped lead the Marlins to a district title. No details about his death were available at press time.

Robert Jackson coached White at Bayside.

Jackson, now Landstown’s head coach, received a text message Sunday morning from someone who said White had died. As he read the text, Jackson didn’t believe it.

He then looked at his phone and saw he had missed two phone calls from another former player, David Thompson.

“That’s when I got concerned,” Jackson said. “And I called big Dave, because Jon and big Dave talked every day. And when I talked to

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