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IUHoosiers.com

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Simmie Cobbs was at the Boys and Girls Club, where he customarily went after school, when his grandmother came to pick him up early.

He wasn't sure why. And he figured they were just driving home.

Then came the phone call. And the hospital.

"Right when we were pulling up to the hospital, my grandmother gets a phone call," Cobbs recalled. "She starts crying and tells the person, whoever is calling on the phone, that 'Simmie just passed.' Then she breaks down."

Simmie Cobbs, Sr., had just entered his fourth decade on the planet when he died of a heart attack.