The Palm Beach Post

Mom: Head injuries left NFL player with child’s mindset

She spoke in July, when Tre Mason fled from deputy while riding ATV.

- By Jorge Milian Palm Beach Post Staff Writer myPalmBeac­hPost.com.

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

 ??  ?? Tre Mason rushed for a combined 972 yards for the Rams in his first two seasons.
Tre Mason rushed for a combined 972 yards for the Rams in his first two seasons.

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