“I got the phone call today about some sad news about the loss of one of my [nine] guys that have signed on to play college football,” Ocoee assistant coach Henry Anderson wrote on Facebook on Sunday at 2:17 a.m. “Not only [have] I lost a good kid but lost a brother.”
Rentz, along with Ocoee teammate Lovie Jenkins, signed a football scholarship with the University of Louisville in December. Rentz tied a state record as a sophomore in 2017 when he intercepted five passes in a game as an injury replacement for the Knights.
“Found out one of the players I know lost his life tonight,” local trainer Aaron Jones wrote in a Facebook post at 1:40 a.