Texas Tech Bull Statue Kills 14-year old Boy

14-year old Texan boy Miguel Martinez died after being impaled by the horns of a bull statue at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. The boy was reportedly playing hide and seek along with his friends around the bull statue at the National Ranching Heritage Museum inside the university campus.

According to sources, Texas Tech University's spokesman Chris Cook said the accident occurred on a Saturday morning at around 3am. During that time, Martinez was with Marenda Podhorsky and her teenage son Jeremy Warren along with another adult and one other teenager. The youngsters were said to be playing a late night game of hide and seek when Martinez was impaled on the chest by the bull statue's horns. Warren and his other playmate were not sure how Martinez got impaled.

In an interview with KBCD-TV Lubbock, Judith Leseberg, the boy's mother said "he just happened to trip over one of the lights. I guess he lost his balance and he went straight down on one of the horns. It's hard for all of us. No mother expects this to happen to their child." Leseberg received news of her son's death through a phone call from her daughter. "She was like, 'He's gone.' I was like, 'Who took him?' I wasn't letting the word die. She says, 'Mom, he's gone, he's not coming back,' and I just fell to the ground," Leseberg told Everything Lubbock.

According to the Texas Tech police report, the 911 call came in about 2:45 am. Martinez was able to get himself off from the bull statue's horns suffering a wound in his chest. He called on his friend, Warren for help. "I just laid there beside him. I put my jacket over him and just held him tight and told him I loved him," Warren told KBCD-TV Lubbock. "He was like a big brother to me."

When asked about the university's action plan regarding the incident, Cook said "Anytime unforeseen accidents occur, we review our policies, practices, and even our facilities to determine if any changes are needed to avoid similar events in the future."