{"id":136630,"date":"2025-08-11T09:52:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/136630\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T09:52:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:52:46","slug":"dallas-isd-track-star-state-champ-dies-unexpectedly-before-senior-year-begins-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/136630\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas ISD track star, state champ dies unexpectedly before senior year begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>The Brief<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Roy Hughes, a 17-year-old star student and athlete from Lincoln High School, died just before his senior year, according to his family.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was found unresponsive at his home after practice on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An autopsy is being performed to determine the cause of death.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>DALLAS<\/strong> &#8211; Just days before 17-year-old Roy Hughes was to start his senior year at Lincoln High School, his family is mourning the loss of the star student and athlete.<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln High track star dies<img alt=\"&lt;div&gt;Roy Hughes (Source: Virginia Mosley)&lt;\/div&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/104225ee083481de942e5e3427cd4bd1.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Roy Hughes (Source: Virginia Mosley)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>What we know<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to Dallas Police, officers were called to the 1800 block of West Mockingbird Lane on Friday around noon. When they arrived, they found Hughes unresponsive. Dallas Fire-Rescue arrived and pronounced him dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His mother, Virginia Mosley, tells FOX 4 News Roy went to practice Friday morning. After practice, he went home and fell asleep. His mother says he never woke up.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"&lt;div&gt;Roy Hughes (Source: Virginia Mosley)&lt;\/div&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a6109138eca3d1a1d4b32f8035a3ca26.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Roy Hughes (Source: Virginia Mosley)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>What we don&#8217;t know<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An autopsy is being performed to determine Hughes&#8217; cause of death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It&#8217;s unclear whether Hughes had any prior medical issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>What they&#8217;re saying<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;He was always a good person, had a good heart for everybody,&#8221; said Hughes&#8217; older brother, Timad Cotton, in an interview with FOX 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Another of Hughes&#8217; older brothers also spoke at his balloon release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I just wanna say, grateful for what he did and thankful for what he did, he&#8217;s gonna push us forward all the way through now,&#8221; said Timmy Williams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lincoln High School posted to X, calling Hughes a &#8220;true model who defied the odds and defined excellence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>About Roy Hughes<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hughes was about to start his senior year at Lincoln Heights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was a state champion athlete. He won the 4A state title in 2025 for the 300 hurdles with a time of 36.58.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>What&#8217;s next<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A balloon release will be held in his honor on Sunday, Aug. 10, at 3 p.m. at Lincoln High School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>The Source<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information in this article is from Roy Hughes&#8217; family, the Dallas Police Department and the Dallas County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Roy Hughes, a 17-year-old star student and athlete from Lincoln High School, died just before his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":136631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,14842,82137,82138,82141,82139,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,82140],"class_list":{"0":"post-136630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-police","11":"tag-lincoln-high-school","12":"tag-roy-hughes","13":"tag-roy-hughes-jr","14":"tag-star-student","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa","23":"tag-virginia-mosley"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115009523338384695","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}