A 24-year-old bull rider from Wyoming died Thursday from injuries he suffered after being trampled by the bull at a rodeo event in Wharton, Texas.
Dylan Grant was bucked off the bull he was riding in the second round of the Wharton County Youth Fair Xtreme Bulls event, the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association said in a release.
He was then trampled by the bull, according to KHOU-TV. Event announcer Robert Blue Jeanes told Cowboy State Daily that the bull stepped on Mr. Grant’s neck.
Mr. Grant was able to stand and get help from paramedics, who first rushed him to an ambulance and then had him airlifted to a hospital in Houston, where he subsequently died.
“We’re just upset. Sad and heartbroke for the kid and the family. For everybody that was there, it was just terrible,” Mr. Jeanes told Cowboy State Daily.
The Wharton County Youth Fair wrote on Facebook that they offered “our sincere condolences to Dylan’s family. Please keep them all in your thoughts and prayers!”
The University of Wyoming Rodeo Team, for whom Mr. Grant competed in his time at the school, wrote that they were “heartbroken” and that their “thoughts and prayers are with Dylan’s father, Wade, and Dylan’s mother Tiffany during this unthinkable time.”
