18-year-old Sonny Blundell died from injuries he sustained after hitting his head while doing a backflip on June 24, according to reports
The Australian teen had been celebrating his new move from New South Wales to the Gold Coast in Queensland with his girlfriend at the time
Blundell was reportedly hospitalized and placed into a coma before passing away on June 30
An Australian teenager has died after hitting his head while doing a backflip in his new apartment, according to reports.
Sonny Blundell, 18, had been celebrating his move from the Central Coast in New South Wales to the Gold Coast in Queensland when the incident occurred on June 24. He “was found unresponsive” by his housemate in the lounge room of their apartment, Australian newspapers The Daily Telegraph and The Courier Mail reported.
Blundell was hospitalized and placed into a coma before undergoing brain surgery. He later died from his injuries on June 30, according to the outlets.
His sister Izabella Cromack-Hay said he had recently moved to the Gold Coast suburb of Southport “to start a new life with his girlfriend” after being offered a concreting job in the area, per The Daily Telegraph.
“Moving to Queensland only a month ago, which was his greatest accomplishment, he worked the hardest concreting and making himself known,” Cromack-Hay told the outlet.
Blundell had facetimed with his sister on the day of the incident, she recalled. He had been celebrating moving to Southport beach with his best friend Mitchell Bullard when he did the backflip, per The Daily Telegraph.
“He hit his head in the lounge room on the ground and had a headache went to bed,” Cromack-Hay told the outlet. “[He] woke up went to the toilet vomiting and then passed out that’s when his best friend found him unresponsive in the morning.”
Blundell was sent to the Queensland Hospital Intensive Care Unit. He suffered “multiple strokes” and a brain bleed ahead of having brain surgery, his sister shared on a GoFundMe page before his death.
“The first 24 hours were the most critical … we nearly lost him after having multiple strokes and another bleed, which led to him needing a drain in his brain,” wrote Cromack-Hay. “There is major uncertainty that Sonny will or will not pull through. He’s working his hardest as there could be recovery and rehabilitation.”
