’Bama lineman found dead on hotel balcony

Published 12:51 am Friday, May 13, 2011

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Alabama offensive lineman Aaron Douglas, a junior college transfer and onetime Tennessee starter, was found dead on the second floor balcony of a home in Fernandina Beach, Fla., after attending a party, according to police.

Witnesses said Douglas, 21, was taking a taxi to Jacksonville after dinner with friends, Fernandina police chief James T. Hurley said in a statement.

The statement said two females apparently invited him to a party while he was in the cab, and he arrived between 11 and 11:30 p.m. He was seen at the residence as late as 2 a.m. before the male resident and others discovered him “apparently dead” on the balcony Thursday morning, Hurley said.

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Douglas was pronounced dead at the scene.

The medical examiner’s office is investigating the cause of death.

No police report was immediately available, according to a dispatcher who answered the phone at the department.

The residence is listed on Zillow.com as a 2,760-square-foot single-family house.