Former Hillcrest, Charlotte basketball standout Galen Young dies after car rams house
A tarp covers the hole left by a car that struck former NBA player Galen Young while he was sitting in the living room of his mother's house in Southwest Memphis June 5, 2021. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
A car rammed into the house early Saturday, June 5, 2021. According Galen Young’s college teammate, Marlon Thomas, Young was visiting his mother when the accident occurred. (Courtesy Young Family)
According to a Tweet posted by the Memphis Police Department, a vehicle crashed into a house on Horn Lake Road in South Memphis and killed Young, who was sitting inside.
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