Another prep tragedy: Truman (N.Y.) football star Isayah Muller stabbed to death

Another tragedy – another violent one – has rocked the prep sports world.

According to police, Isayah Muller, 19, was stabbed to death in the Bronx hours after his graduation from Truman (Bronx, N.Y.) on Tuesday.

Muller was a star running back on the football team and rushed for 908 yards in 10 games and scored 15 touchdowns in 2010.

According to police, on the way from his graduation ceremony to a celebration dinner, the Muller family got into an argument with parking attendants over a missing item in the car, reportedly a bottle of cologne. A fight broke out and Muller was stabbed.



Muller's father drove his son immediately to a clinic and an ambulance took him to St. Barnabas Hospital, where Muller was pronounced dead. As of late Tuesday, no charges had been filed in the murder.

In an odd twist, Andre Muller, Isayah's father, has been charged with assault and possession of a weapon.

The 5-foot-10, 180-pound Isayah Muller rushed for 285 yards in his final high school game, a 23-20 victory over Beach Channel for the PSAL Bowl Division championship. His team finished 11-2.

"Isayah Muller is the type of player who steps up when the game is on the line," Truman coach John-James Shepherd told reporters after the game.

Shepherd told the New York Daily News on Tuesday: "I started coaching in 1999 and Isayah is the best back that I've ever seen."

He said Isayah Muller had a chance to play professionally. "He's the only kid I coached that I would say that about."



The stabbing comes on the heels of the shooting death of Gateway (Pa.) incoming senior linebacker Darrell Turner Thursday in Durham, N.C.

Turner, who was on his way with teammates to a 7-on-7 Tournament in Florida, was shot after a verbal altercation with a stranger in a parking lot of a restaurant.

Police arrested 22-year-old Gabriel James Gamez of San Antonio, who was in town for a funeral. Turner was a Division I football prospect. Police are still trying to sort out how the altercation started.

A day later, a University of Michigan basketball recruit survived a plane crash that took the lives of his father and stepmother.

Austin Hatch, an incoming junior at Fort Wayne Canterbury (Fort Wayne, Ind.), remains in critical condition following the crash of the family's single-engine plane at a Charlevioix, Mich., garage en route to a cabin near Lake Michigan.

He is still in critical but stable condition at Munson Medical Center in Traverse City, Mich. The brain swelling has gone down and doctors hope to reduce the amount of coma-inducing drugs soon.



Here is a website set up for Hatch with updates on his condition.