On August 23, 2014, Cameroonian soccer star Albert Ebossé died after a match in Nigeria. He was just 24 years old. According to The Guardian, Ebossé was allegedly struck in the head by a flying projectile thrown by angry fans. However, a Cameroonian pathologist, Dr. Andre Moune, pushed back on the cause of death three months later by stating that Ebossé's wounds were more consistent with a brutal beating (via The Guardian). The autopsy report revealed that Ebossé suffered a "an indentation of the skull" and a "rupture of his cervical vertebrae" that the doctor believed was caused by a knife.
"When you see the injuries to his shoulders, the only way that can be explained is by a physical attack," Moune told BBC TV (via BBC Sport). "Shortly after his death, we saw a video of Ebossé, after the match, surrounded by police and leaving the pitch to enter the dressing room," he continued. "We didn't see anything happen to him on the pitch or anything that prevented him leaving the pitch because of a missile. It can't be a slate tile, as the Algerians stated in their report, because if someone threw a tile, even at high speed, it couldn't cause such severe wounds like the ones I found on the body."
At the time of this writing, nobody has been charged with Ebossé's death, and the questions about the cause remain.
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