By Ruth Manuel-Logan on Jun 30th 2010 10:55AM
Police investigators have confirmed the hot tub drowning death of the 2-year-old son of famed former NFL Philadelphia Eagles quarterback
Randall Cunningham.
The child, Christian, is the youngest of Cunningham's four children. He died Tuesday afternoon, after wandering in to his backyard and falling in to the hot tub. He was found floating in the water behind Cunningham's Las Vegas home.
A woman at Cunningham's house was with several children, when she found the boy at around 4:30 p.m. Reportedly, she removed the child from the hot tub and began performing CPR but was unsuccessful. Paramedics took the boy to St. Rose Dominican Hospital, Siena campus in Henderson, Nevada, where he was pronounced dead.
Abuse and neglect detectives were investigating the incident and determined that no charges will be filed against Cunningham and his wife, Felicity. The investigators have categorized the unfortunate incident as an accident.
Cunningham, who was a quarterback on four NFL teams, was a celebrated player with the Eagles and then the Minnesota Vikings. He retired in 2002 and eventually decided to answer a call of a more divine order.
The former gridiron star became a non-denominational, multicultural fellowship pastor and was ordained in 2004. Later that year, he opened Remnant Ministries. Ironically, the hot tub in the backyard was used to perform baptisms. Our deepest condolences go out to Cunningham and his family.
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By: Big Leroy Brown on 6/30/2010 8:00PM
All condolences to the Cunningham family for this tragedy. Tomorrow is not promised to any of us so love one another and live everyday as if it were your last. God bless us all.
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By: dfhfggt on 6/30/2010 10:33PM
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By: slammin on 6/30/2010 10:42PM
@guita queen
It's obvious that you are uneducated and backward as HELL...You don't put things like this on the internet. I have a question for you, have you ever heard of a DICTIONARY??? Probably not. Your writings depict that of a first or second grade student.
People this is EXACTLY why folks should STAY IN SCHOOL...This woman writes like she's a RUN-AWAY-SLAVE...so embarrasing. GO GET AN EDUCATION, Y DON'T YOU!!!!!!!!!
To the Cunninghams, you're in my prayers and There should be a Christian Law making it mandatory that certain security measures be taken for those w/pools and small children.
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By: Dr.Marietta Brown on 7/01/2010 12:38AM
Our prayers are with the Family and there Church. This is sad but we can pray .
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By: Focus on 7/02/2010 12:21AM
Fences people. There should be fences with little ones around.
Such a tragedy. My prayers go out to them.
I remember Randall dated Whitney Houston in the 80s but broke it off because he couldn't deal with her drug use. He was a cutie pie too.
I didn't know he became ordained!
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