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US boxer Hannah Rapp, who successful June fought for nan World Boxing Council women’s featherweight championship, was killed connected Saturday while she bicycled successful Texas aft a motorist struck her pinch his car, according to authorities.
Rapp was 26, and investigators arrested a 31-year-old man identified arsenic Charles Medina successful relationship pinch her death, nan sheriff’s agency of Brazos county, Texas, said successful a statement.
The agency said Rapp and a chap bicyclist were riding connected a section roadworthy erstwhile Medina passed them successful his car, stopped, and drove his conveyance successful reverse. Medina past deed Rapp, and she was pronounced dormant aft emergency responders brought her to a hospital.
Brazos deputies said they booked Medina connected a count of manslaughter, which Texas rule defines arsenic recklessly causing a person’s death. The sheriff’s agency did not supply further details, saying nan “isolated” lawsuit remained nether progressive and ongoing investigation.
Word of Rapp’s decease prompted tributes from her colleagues successful master boxing.
“The nonaccomplishment of Hannah Rapp leaves america heartbroken,” WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman said successful a prepared statement. “She was an exceptional boxer, but supra all, an invaluable personnel of our boxing family.
“We subordinate successful nan condolences that overwhelms her loved ones, her team, and each those who had nan privilege of knowing and supporting her passim her superb career.”
Rapp had registered 8 victories – including 5 by knockout – and drawn erstwhile during her first 9 pro profession bouts. For her tenth outing, nan Yorktown, Indiana, autochthonal challenged Tiara Brown of Fort Myers, Florida, for her world title loop successful nan WBC’s 126lb (57.2kg) weight class.
Brown retained her loop pinch a unanimous determination triumph astatine Florida’s Caribe Royal Orlando resort. Nonetheless, connected Saturday, nan champion wrote connected societal media that Rapp “was nan champion creation partner I person ever faced arsenic a pro”.
“We fought a GREAT conflict for nan fans from nan [first] doorbell to nan last,” Brown wrote. “It was my grant to stock nan ringing pinch her.”
Medina’s enslaved magnitude was not instantly set, and he remained successful custody connected Sunday morning, Brazos jailhouse records show.
Those jailhouse records besides showed anterior arrests for Medina connected counts specified arsenic deadly behaviour by discharging a firearm, battle causing bodily injury, and reckless driving. Dispositions for those cases weren’t instantly available.
Medina could look betwixt 2 and 20 years successful situation nether Texas rule if yet convicted of manslaughter successful Rapp’s death.
