Jonathan Price of Wolfe City, Texas, United States has died. He was 31.
Price was an employee of the Wolfe City public works department. He is Junior Price and Marcella Louis‘s son.
“Everybody loved Jonathan,” Price’s sister April Louis told WFAA. “Everybody. Black, white, Mexican, it doesn’t matter. He loved everybody. Everybody loved him.”
Jonathan went to Wolfe City High School where he played football. His coach Dale Trompler told KTXS, “Price made an undeniable imprint on my life and will be in my heart forever.”
In 2008, Jonathan played football at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. Jesse Burleson was his head coach.
In 2009, Jonathan started working as a fitness trainer and pursued bodybuilding as he wanted to become an International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness (IFBB) Pro men’s physique competitor. He also went to Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas.
As an athletepreneur, Jonathan was registered as the agent of Repetitive Reps, a company based in Dallas, Texas and incorporated on December 17, 2015. On the evening of October 3, 2020, he was Tased and shot by Wolfe City Police Department officer Shaun David Lucas, 22, at the Kwik Check gas station at 103 Santa Fe Street in Wolfe City.
According to the Texas Rangers of the Texas Department of Public Safety, Jonathan “resisted in a non-threatening posture and began walking away” and Lucas’s actions were “not objectionably reasonable”. Price was unarmed when Lucas tried to detain him.
After being shot by Lucas, Price was taken to Hunt Regional Medical Hospital in Greenville, Texas where he died. On October 5, 2020, former Red Sox player Will Middlebrooks, one of Price’s childhood friends, set up a GoFundMe page for his memorial and funeral.
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