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POLICE WHO WERE called to the scene arrived to find an empty street -- the man and woman having fled; Garrett having rushed back home -- so they followed the bloody trail Garrett had left from the intersection of Chittenden and Grant avenues to his apartment a few blocks away. SCOOP AND SCORE @HaskellGarrett_ with the big man TD for @OhioStateFB pic.twitter.com/paBwcwP7qp. Please. Get in on the conversation about Ohio State athletics by joining theBuckeyes Wire Forum. ET. Edward Sutelan is a content producer at The Sporting News. The news rattled Garrett. Ohio State defensive tackle Haskell Garrett was injured late Saturday night from a non-lethal gunshot wound to the face, confirmed Sunday morning by Columbus Police. "Never, one time, did he flinch," Coombs says. The man then turned and shot him, Garrett told officers. He placed his order, then gave the cashier his name. [3] He committed to Ohio State University to play college football. All as he recovers from a gunshot wound suffered as a result of stepping up and intervening in a situation that looked like it needed someone to assist. "You don't feel useful anymore. He ran back home, spitting out blood along the way so he wouldn't choke on it. Dana Rieck. [1][2] Garrett attended Bishop Gorman High School in Summerlin, Nevada. Garrett, 22, was shot in the cheek about 12:30 a.m. Sunday, according to a Columbus police report. By that time, reporters had staked out the apartment he shared with Werner, anyhow, so he holed up in a hotel with his mother, instead. "To show people that it's not because of what happened to me that I am who I am." "You should come over for Thanksgiving kind of thing," Rick Neal, Alex's father, explains. "It's like when a soldier gets hurt in the military," he says. Like other Ohio State players, Garrett has remained on or near campus for workouts and classes this fall. According to the Columbus Dispatch, Garrett tried to break up a fight between a man and a woman on Aug. 30, 2020, and the man shot him in the face. Everything that my family and everybody around me has gone through, its just overwhelming.. His ordeal had a small impact on who he was that year and what he accomplished in 2020, but he'll have you know that he was always that defensive tackle. Dan Hope (@Dan_Hope) October 27, 2020 The two small blemishes obscured beneath his beard are hardly visible, might even be confused for old acne scars, but they're there. Garrett (pictured, far right) was projected to be a starting defensive tackle this fall before the season was canceled by the Big Ten Conference due to the coronavirus pandemic. "Haskell Garrett has been receiving excellent care at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center for the injuries he received on Sunday," head coach Ryan Day said in a . They're in the bag, exactly as they were returned to him, stained -- these tokens not of a faith unraveled, he says, but a faith renewed. I want to inform everyone that I am okay and my recovery is going well. He is a New England native who went to Boston College and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. So immediately my instincts are to go help that woman. That he was the kind of unlucky that takes your breath away to have lost him so early. When he's back at Bishop Gorman, where he spent his last three years of high school winning national championships -- and where he now returns to train in the weeks before the NFL draft -- he passes through the hallways to a stream of adulation. He lost five teeth, but the bullet went in one cheek out and out the other -- a through and through, he'd come to learn it was called -- without hitting bone, without even hitting his tongue, and he was discharged by Monday. Still, there are reminders that he either cannot or will not relinquish. (RELATED: David Hookstead Is The True King In The North When It Comes To College Football) As far as the Columbus Police Department is concerned, with no leads on the suspect's identity, nor knowledge of who the woman was, the case is officially inactive, which is fine by Garrett. And six months later they were all gone.'". Ohio State defensive lineman Haskell Garrett reportedly suffered a gunshot wound to the face early Sunday morning, according to the Columbus Dispatch. Still, Garrett idolized his father, who was 54 when Haskell was born. His coaches weren't precise about what changed in Garrett, merely certain that he had changed, period. THE SHOOTING STILL sneaks up on him. He was then transported to the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. "Eeeeeeeverybody," he says for good measure. 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He still needs help to cover some very significant medical costs it appears. If you want a pest-free patio this spring, the most important thing you can do is take away those elements that bugs find desirable. Garrett is a veteran of 33 Ohio State games and the true senior will be one of the most experienced members of a defensive tackle rotation for the Buckeyes in 2020. All in the final weeks before the 2020 season began. One day Garrett told Pops that he was going for a jog; the team had a big game on the horizon, and he wanted to get some work in. According to police, officers found blood in the street and a shell casing near the blood. Michigan State QB Payton Thorne enters portal, Deion 'ashamed' of NFL teams for lack of HBCU picks, Wave of Colorado players hit transfer portal, 2023 NFL Draft: SEC leads for 17th straight year, Vaughn aims to be latest breakthrough 'undersized' RB, Eagles spark Georgia reunion in NFL Draft. He had plenty of siblings -- three on his mother's side and two on his father's -- but his mother's children were seven, 11 and 18 years older. August 30, 2020 2:48 PM ET. "Just sit there and talk with Coach (Johnson) and go over game plans. . In his mind, he never opens the door of his apartment to go back out to retrieve the phone. 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With Mook moving back to Hawaii once Garrett left for Ohio State, home base became the Neals' home. "I wasn't a very strict parent at all," Key says. (Watch a past report in the video, above. Enforced curfews. He was hit once in the face and said he ran south on Grant Avenue toward a friend's apartment. Haskell Garrett made one of the biggest plays of Ohio State's season-opening victory over Minnesota on Thursday. Please be OK. Officers responded just before 12:30 a.m. Sunday to the 400 block of Chittenden Avenue on a reported shooting. The bullet went in one cheek and out the other, through Garretts teeth and tongue. Now, weve gotten a better idea of just how far Garrett has come since that fateful night, as this week marked the first time the DT has really opened up about the incident that resulted in him losing five teeth after a bullet ripped through both of his cheeks. I went over there. On Aug. 30, 2020, Garrett was shot in the face overnight while trying to break up an altercation between a man and a woman in the University District. ET. The Mooks led him to his second pack. Joined ESPN The Magazine after graduating from Penn State University. Garrett was not be selected in the draft, but he was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Tennessee Titans soon after. On Aug. 30, 2020, Garrett was shot in the face overnight while trying to break up an altercation between a man and a woman in the University District. Coombs remembers pondering. Three of the sacks came against Akron. Probably more so than before the incident, he was determined to be something and be somebody.". He would have walked by, wouldn't have given them a second glance at all, he says, except he saw the man hit her. Garrett played in the 2017 U. S. Army All-American Bowl. The Big Ten postponed its fall season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. "You get shot in the face, somebody's trying to take your life," Garrett says. (via @gmfb) pic.twitter.com/IJyl2z9FYj, NFL Network (@nflnetwork) April 26, 2022, It was a late night. What happened to Haskell Garrett? Haskell is a beautiful soul inside and out. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. "It really was.". "I want to thank the first responders from the Columbus PD, the EMTs, and the doctors and nurses who took care of me at the Wexner Medical Center. A trio of boys -- Bryson, Tryson and Pierson Mook -- met Garrett through football camps and took him under their wing, and he coveted what he saw in the Mooks. Originally from Vermont, Garrett moved to Hawaii, then Nevada at age 13, after the death of his father. Before he returns to that split second when a 9-millimeter bullet blazed through his mouth, he rattles off the normal college goings-on he had been a part of that night. By the time his father passed away, his mother's marriage to Joe was falling apart, and just over a year after Haskell Sr.'s death, Key moved her and her son from Vermont back to her native Hawaii. "He said, 'When you leave the house you leave the house looking like you belong to somebody.'". They were native Hawaiians, Polynesian like Garrett, but they lived and played football for a powerhouse on the mainland named Bishop Gorman, which was how Garrett decided he wanted to live and play there too. He also recovered two fumbles. He smiles again, this time beaming. Garrett mostly enjoyed the autonomy. He rewinds the movie in his head of that night, spooling back one frame then the next, like he does when he's poring over his football film, breaking down plays, diagnosing what he'd do differently. I also want to thank all of my family and friends for their thoughts and prayers during this awful circumstance. Heres a young man that was SHOT IN THE FACE LAST YEARI was not ready for that pic.twitter.com/BKyJisNP78, Ei Sith (@ejsmitly_10) September 3, 2021. Sometimes he felt guilty. Information concerning a possible suspect, or further details surrounding the incident, was not included in a media release. Garrett got out of the car, cried, vowed he wouldn't lie again, and Pops -- figuring he had imparted his lesson, and never having really intended to make Garrett run the eight miles home -- opened the car door to let him back in. We'll do that for you.' "Wolves in great packs always run together," he says. High school bled into college and life shifted from Las Vegas to Columbus. Garrett is perched on a blue plastic seat at the football stadium at Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas, 2,000 miles away from Columbus, Ohio, reliving the moment he was shot in the face. . WHEN GARRETT WAS 3 years old at home with his older sister, he snuck out when she fell asleep and rode his two-wheel bicycle toward his father's home. Garrett was found in an apartment with the gunshot wound through both of his cheeks early Sunday, according toThe Columbus Dispatch. He closes his eyes, and he's right back there, on Aug. 30, 2020: the deafening ringing in his ear, the rush of confusion, the dawning of a new reality. Haskell Garrett, a Bishop Gorman High School Graduate from the class of 2017 (3- Time Football National Champions). All rights reserved. "Because that's literally what you have to think.". That's when everything went black. He lived maybe a mile-and-a-half away, and Garrett made it all the way to his father's street -- already having crossed a bustling intersection -- when Haskell Sr. rounded the bend, and found his son en route. 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When they each got word that Garrett had been shot in the summer of 2020, the families -- these people he'd drawn into his life and let draw him into theirs -- converged. This mad rush to the emergency room brought back the other mad rushes to the emergency room, when he was in sixth grade and had to learn to drive in order to take Haskell Sr. to the hospital if no one else could. One of our core values at Ohio State is Title IX; respect women. I thought I was doing the right thing. He lapped up the stories of Haskell Sr. walking into Madison Square Garden with his high school basketball team at a time when it was rare for African Americans to play in the arena. And his wife, Teresa, became Mama Neal. He recounted what happened to the police. Well get through it and find some sense of normalcy hopefully soon. Darrius Mullins, 30, was shot around 3:35 p.m. April 27, 2022 12:14 pm ET Absolutely no one can question Haskell Garrett's toughness and determination. COLUMBUS, Ohio An Ohio State football player, defensive tackle Haskell Garrett, says he was shot early Sunday morning while trying to stop an argument, according to a police report. He was named an All-American that season by CBS. According to ESPN, Garrett was shot in the face early Sunday morning in Columbus. He finished the campaign with 20 tackles 12 solo, eight assists two sacks, an interception and. But what Garrett forfeited in freedom, he gained in fraternity. Garrett, a 6-foot-2, 299-pound senior from Las Vegas, was found in an apartment in Columbus with the gunshot wound. Original story (Aug. 29): Ohio State defensive lineman Haskell Garrett is in stable condition after being shot in the face Sunday morning. "He's like, 'I'm OK. Font Size: Ohio State football player Haskell Garrett has been shot. He played college football at Ohio State. [4][5], During his first three years at Ohio State (20172019), Garrett recorded 20 tackles over 33 games as a rotational defensive lineman. Ohio, Haskell tried to stop an altercation between a man and woman he did not know and was senselessly shot in the face by the suspect.. ", The story of how @HaskellGarrett returned to the field after a life threatening incident is inspiring. I hit a flight or fight moment. I ran across this thanks to an article onEleven Warriors and also wanted to do my part to get the word out. Frequently described as "freakishly tall," he once used his 6'10" frame to sneak in the NBA Draft and convince people he was a member of the Utah Jazz. Follow all of your favorite Ohio teams at Buckeyes Wire, Browns Wire, Bengals Wire and The Columbus Dispatch! It's why, even as a season-long ankle injury hampered him last season, he doesn't regret embarking on his truth-telling mission. 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COLUMBUS, Ohio Ohio State defensive tackle Haskell Garrett was released from The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center on Monday afternoon after Garrett suffered a gunshot wound to the face. Which is how Rick Neal became Papa Neal. Original story (Aug. 29): Ohio State defensive lineman Haskell Garrett is in stable condition after being shot in the face Sunday morning. "We didn't want anybody coming back to finish the job." I wouldnt be receiving this honor without you guys, and I appreciate everything you do for me, putting me in great positions and helping me excel as a great football athlete. Most days, Garrett is a cheery, gentle hulk of a guy. COLUMBUS, Ohio An Ohio State football player, defensive tackle Haskell Garrett, says he was shot early Sunday morning while trying to stop an argument, according to a police report. "Now I'm more focused on living life.". I was going out to get my phone from my car I was on the other side of the street and I saw this couple arguing. This is my time to take the reins over and then you get hit with" He trails off. So intent was Garrett on proving that truth that he chose to forgo the 2021 NFL draft and return to Ohio State. He ended up the season with All-American honors. Garrett, a senior at the time, had spent his first three years in Columbus mostly on the team's defensive line backburner. As of this writing, Garrett has raised just over $17,000 for a campaign looking for $100,000. So I trusted him.". He inspires and motivates all those who cross his path. SpectrumNews1 reported that Garrett said he lost five teeth and had to have multiple surgeries, but as soon as he knew the injury wasn't life-threatening, he worked to get back to the field. Contact/Follow us@BuckeyesWireon Twitter, and like our page onFacebookto follow ongoing coverage of Ohio State news, notes and opinion. Garrett opted to return to Columbus for one final season instead of go to the NFL. The kid was still undergoing surgery. Copyright 2023 Sporting News Holdings Limited. By mid-September, he was lifting weights, even if he couldn't bench press, lest the blood rush to his still-healing face. He had been cleared for -- and sustained his first contact -- the Tuesday before. He smiles. We will continue to help him and his family any way we can to expedite his recovery.. In Game 1 of 2021, Buckeyes coach Ryan Day and Ohio State fans saw how much of an impact he could have. Robert Cohen, Post-Dispatch. Haskell Garrett, the Buckeyes' defensive tackle, is in stable condition at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center after an overnight shooting. Per a report from Bill Landis of The Athletic, Garrett urged a man to stop the "aggressive" argument before the suspect pulled out a gun and fired it, which resulted in Garrett's injury. Authorities have not provided any further information on a suspect from the incident. He panicked, wanted to get on a plane too, until they assured him Garrett was not critically hurt or in immediate danger. The play came almost a year to the day that Garrett was shot in the face attempting to break up a fight in Columbus, Ohio. Sunday, it was reported that Garrett had been injured after being shot in the cheeks of his face. "Everybody asks," he says. That was the kind of man his father was. When he came to, the street was empty, the man and woman gone. While the names of future NFL stars will be called out on Las Vegas Boulevard, he'll be a few miles off the Strip, at home -- at the Neals' home -- with Rick and Teresa and Alex, with Ray Mook, if he can catch a flight in, with his mother, and a few of his siblings, waiting for his own name to be called. A big reason why the Ohio State Buckeyes made the College Football Playoff during the 2020 season was because of the play of Haskell Garrett. One of Teresa's family friends had a baby recently, and within weeks, the father died suddenly from a heart attack. [10] On December 27, 2021, Garrett announced that he would be opting out of the 2022 Rose Bowl and declaring for the 2022 NFL Draft. SCOOP AND SCORE @HaskellGarrett_ with the big man TD for @OhioStateFB pic.twitter.com/paBwcwP7qp. I remember waking up early on a Sunday morning to news that hehad been shot in the cheeks of the face and was taken to the Wexner Medical Center. 10:43 am ET. [8][9] He was named an All-American that season by CBS. I saw another man hit a woman. Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call Columbus police at 614-645-4141. He played on Oct. 24, Ohio State's first game of the pandemic-adjusted year, against Nebraska. He has been covering Big Ten football since 2014. https://touchdownwire.usatoday.com/2020/08/30/ohio-state-buckeyes-haskell-garrett-gunshot-wound-to-face/, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Other times he felt lucky. Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the Columbus Police Felony assault Unit at 614-645-4141 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at 614-461-TIPS (8477). Garrett was found in an apartment with the gunshot. "OK, I see you showing off, Dad," Garrett thought to himself, struck anew that he was lucky to have had a father like that. Here's how you can get started, he was released from the hospital on Monday. Darrius Mullins, 30, was pronounced dead at the . "I just trusted that he knew what his responsibilities were. Go pre-register now. "I wasn't going to let something like this distract me or get me off course from what was destined for me, and that was to be the starting DT at @ohiostatefb. He'll recall with openness the hole that his father's passing ripped in his chest. Sports betting in Ohio is officially launching on January 1, 2023. "They were my pack.". The latest headlines from FOX8.com: "I've been in the rotation for years. He's 100% good to go now, though. Having problems watching FOX 8 on antenna? Coombs kept an eye on Garrett, a detective scouring for any signs of hesitation. I think Ive been shot.'. If he's being honest, he'd rather keep it that way. He'd dump out a coin jar to scrounge for five dollars, enough to cover a sizzler -- his favorite half-pound burger -- from The Shopping Bag in Burlington. On Sunday, August 30th while walking in Columbus. MORE: Ohio State kicks off 2021 season against Minnesota. You can run home from here." They were practically different generations, and didn't really grow up in the house with him. Best gifts for the graduate with travel plans, Mothers Day inspo: This foot massager has 20,000, Big hit: Super Mario Bros. Movie hits $1B. Ohio State defensive lineman Haskell Garrett was reportedly attempting to break up an argument in Columbus before he was shot in the face over the weekend. On Sunday, Garrett was reportedly in stable condition. According to a police report released Monday, Garrett said he was walking in the area of Chittenden Avenue and Grant Avenue when he saw a man and woman arguing. He rode to the hospital in an ambulance, crying the whole way, praying the whole way. ST. LOUIS (KMOV) - A man was shot and killed in downtown St. Louis Thursday afternoon, police said. But this -- the idea that his shooting spurred his breakthrough -- is what he bristles at. Unfortunately, Garrett's time with Tennessee has come to an end. Recorded a career-high four tackles and 1.5 TFLs in the win over Miami (Ohio) on 18 defensive snaps to earn champion honors from the coaching staff. "I remember that night like it was yesterday" he says. Garrett has come a long way from the terrifying moments of Aug. 30, 2020, when he was shot in the face while trying to intervene in a fight in Columbus. You'll now receive the top Buckeyes Wire stories each day directly in your inbox. And he clutches the families he has adopted. "Haskell Garrett turns potential tragedy into triumph with breakthrough season", "No. Five weeks after declaring the season over, and two weeks after he was shot, the football season was back on, and Garrett -- still relegated to a mostly liquid diet; avocado and soft eggs if he was feeling ambitious, too -- got it in his head he'd like to be back in time to play. Pops ran his household with a firm hand. The person with an always-revved motor. He had a grade of 80.5 during the 2019 campaign, which is four points higher than any other returning defensive tackle in the conference, Sign up for the Touchdown Wire newsletter to get our top stories in your inbox every morning, The D.C. Defenders will play the Arlington Renegades for the XFL championship, The Arlington Renegades upset the Houston Roughnecks in the XFL South Division championship game, The D.C. Defenders and Houston Roughnecks will play host to the Seattle Sea Dragons and Arlington Renegades, respectively in the XFL (). His mother and oldest brother went to an auto parts store to buy a funnel, so he could pour water into his mouth from overhead and bypass his tongue entirely. At 6'2 and 298 pounds, the Ohio State DT is . Columbus officers responded to Chittenden Avenue, which is about a half mile from campus, for a shooting at about 12:30 a.m. Police said they followed the blood trail and found the 22-year-old victim with a gunshot wound to his face. "I remember when you were this big," Garrett tells the teen, genuinely tickled to discover that in the intervening eight years, that son has sprouted to high-school-football-player size. None of this is unexpected, of course. Ohio residents: 21+ and present in OH. About two months after the incident, he returned to the field and put together an All-America campaign for the Buckeyes. Haskell has aGoFundMe page that is asking for donations to cover the costs of all the medical bills he is racking up and will continue to likely rack up. Connor Toole is the Deputy Editor at BroBible. Please check your email for a confirmation. Please check your email for a confirmation. The defensive tackle was able to keep his perspective during his recovery. Garrett played Saturday against Nebraska. He recorded his first collegiate sack. It's a miracle,' " OSU defensive coordinator Kerry Coombs said. Fortunately, he is recovering at home. At about 12:30 a.m., in the 400 block of Chittenden Avenue, Garrett, 22, was . Had he been hit by a brick? Go Buckeyes!". He wanted out, but he didn't want back into his apartment, either. All he could sense was the burn of what felt like a flame on his face. 1998 - 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. | All Rights Reserved. The officers followed a blood trail to an apartment on East 11th Avenue where they found Garrett with a gunshot wound.