This is the second student in two weeks to have passed away.<\/p>\n
TEXARKANA, Texas \u2014 Another student at Texas A&M-Texarkana has died, just days before receiving his Bachelor’s Degree, the university announced Saturday.<\/p>\n
The university said in a release that Michael Pritchard, a Texarkana native, had died before he was set to graduate on May 8.<\/p>\n
Pritchard was a nursing student in the College of Nursing, Health, and Human Services. It was unclear Saturday how Pritchard died.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe A&M-Texarkana community was heartbroken to learn of Michael\u2019s passing,\u201d said Texas A&M University-Texarkana President Dr. Ross Alexander. \u201cHe was a dedicated healthcare professional who was about to graduate with his bachelor’s degree in nursing. His family and friends will remain in our thoughts during this difficult time.”<\/p>\n
This is the second time in two weeks a Texas A&M-Texarkana has died. On April 25, the university said Graycen Vargo, a Dallas-based long distance runner for the Texas A&M University-Texarkana Track and Field team, died after collapsing during a competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the second student in two weeks to have passed away. TEXARKANA, Texas \u2014 Another student at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-277464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}