Altee tenpenny alabama biography

GREENVILLE, Miss.

(AP) — A 20-year-old college football player was killed in a one-car crash in Mississippi, a local coroner said Wednesday.

Altee Tenpenny was pronounced dead at 6:57 p.m.

An athletic star from close-knit North Little Rock, Tenpenny arrived at Alabama in as a U.S. Army All-American and quickly became a locker-.

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Position: RB · Height: · Weight: · Class: Sophomore · Hometown: North Little Rock, Ark. · High School: North Little Rock.

Tenpenny was a highly regarded recruit in the Class of who originally played for the Crimson Tide.

Tenpenny, 20, was arrested just days before his fatal accident for discharging a firearm and being in possession of a weapon following a Nicholls State.

Tuesday at Delta Regional Medical Center in Greenville, Washington County Coroner Methel Johnson told The Associated Press.

Tenpenny, who played at Alabama in 2013 and 2014, was taken to the hospital after he wrecked a 2008 Dodge Charger near the community of Glen Allan, Johnson said.

Johnson said a Mississippi Highway Patrol officer who responded to the crash told her Tenpenny was traveling alone when the vehicle hit road signs and flipped.

She said he was thrown from the car, but she did not know whether he was wearing a seatbelt. Johnson said Tenpenny had been driving north, toward Arkansas, when the wreck occurred.

Tenpenny is from North Little Rock, Arkansas.

He was a backup running back at Alabama before transferring to UNLV and the