NEW ALBANY, Ind. (WISH) \u2014 Rondale Moore, former Purdue University football star and current Minnesota Vikings wide receiver, was found dead on Saturday in New Albany, Ind. <\/p>\n
The New Albany Police Department found Moore \u201cdeceased in the garage of the property of a suspected self-inflicted gunshot wound.\u201d<\/p>\n
The police department is currently \u201cconducting an investigation into the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n
Moore, who is from New Albany, played high school football at Trinity High School in Louisville, Ky. <\/p>\n
In college, he played for head coach Jeff Brohm at Purdue. <\/p>\n
Brohm posted a message on social media following news of Moore\u2019s death:<\/p>\n
\u201cRondale Moore was a complete joy to coach. The Ultimate competitor that wouldn\u2019t back down from any challenge. Rondale had a work ethic unmatched by anymore. A great teammate that would came through in any situation. We all loved Rondale, we loved his smile and competitive edge that always wanted to please everyone he came in contact with. We offer all of our thoughts and prayers to Rondale and his family, we lover him very much,\u201d said Brohm in a statement<\/a> posted to X. <\/p>\n This story will be updated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW ALBANY, Ind. (WISH) \u2014 Rondale Moore, former Purdue University football star and current Minnesota Vikings wide receiver,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-483084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}