Tuesday, December 29, 2015
YOUNGSTOWN
Hamzah Ajahmi died of bleeding on his brain after his first professional boxing match, according to preliminary findings of the forensic pathologist who performed the boxer’s autopsy Dec. 23.
“It seems reasonably clear that he died from head injuries from the boxing match,” said the pathologist, Dr. Joseph Ohr, who is Mahoning County’s deputy coroner. “There was no other reason for him to be dead.”
Ajahmi, 19, of Dearborn, Mich., made his professional boxing debut at the “Season’s Beatings” event in a pro-am fight against Warren’s Anthony Taylor on Dec. 19 at the St. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Banquet Center.
Ajahmi went to his knee after the fourth round without being hit and collapsed. He died Dec. 22 in St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital after undergoing brain surgery.
“I could find no weakness in the brain itself,” Dr. Ohr said. “I could find no old injuries on the brain” that occurred before Dec. 19, he added.
Read more about the autopsy results in Wednesday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.