Mom: Head injuries left NFL player with child’s mindset
She spoke in July, when Tre Mason fled from deputy while riding ATV.
BOYNTON BEACH — The mother of NFL player and former Park Vista High School star Tre Mason told Palm Beach County sheriff ’s deputies last month that her 22-yearold son has a “10-year-old’s mindset” as the result of head injuries suffered playing football.
“Tre is not himself at all,” Tina Mason says on audio from a sheriff ’s office dashboard-camera video recorded July 27, when Tre Mason fled from a deputy while riding an ATV west of the city. “He’s not making good decisions.”
Mason was “admitted for eval- See moments from PBSO’s chase of Tre Mason on his ATV at uation” to a hospital July 23, after his mother called deputies to her home in Lake Charleston, saying Mason had been acting erratically. Officers found him with a cut hand that day, prompting his trip to the hospital.
The deputy says in the July 27 video that Mason was traveling