“We’re at the beginning of the final stages of my brother,” Robert’s brother, Steven Bush, said.
who collapsed during summer workout drills has been taken off life support, according to his family.
His coaches desperately tried to save the teen, performing CPR and shocking him with a defibrillator, before he was rushed to Stony Brook Hospital. Robert Bush, a 17-year-old football player from Selden, Long Island, has been taken off life support after collapsing during conditioning drills at Newfield High School earlier this week.The cause of the high schooler’s sudden collapse remains uncertain, however, family members indicated that Robert, who was adopted, may have had an unknown hereditary condition thatBush had joined the football team to improve his health and conditioning, Steven said.
“He was always trying to get better and better because he was never a tall guy,” his other brother, Chris, said.
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