{"id":7016,"date":"2022-09-29T10:48:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T10:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci02ac8308200025b4"},"modified":"2022-09-29T10:48:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T10:48:24","slug":"charlotte-man-dies-in-sky-diving-accident-ex-football-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/2022\/09\/29\/charlotte-man-dies-in-sky-diving-accident-ex-football-player\/","title":{"rendered":"CHARLOTTE MAN DIES IN SKY DIVING ACCIDENT, EX FOOTBALL PLAYER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Kelly Rawls, 35, died  in a skydiving accident on September 24, 2022 in Chester County, South Carolina. The deadly accident was at 1:30 p.m. while Andrew was skydiving with the company Sky Dive Carolina. <\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/parachute-851321_960_720.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>  Andrew was in a parachute skydiving and at some point during landing he died.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>  Andrew was highly experienced and had made more than 1,000 previous jumps. Andrew was a former Charlotte area high school football player, he played QB for multiple schools. <\/p>\n<p>Andrew went on to college where he earned an BA in Chemistry from UNC Chapel Hill; an MBA in Finance from Ohio University in 2020; and a 2022 Master of Science from Vanderbilt University.<\/p>\n<p>The following statement was made from Skydive Carolina:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cSkydiving is a close-knit sport with a strong sense of camaraderie. Losing a member of our community affects everyone and we mourn the loss of a friend and fellow jumper. Our sincerest condolences go out to the jumper\u2019s family.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Rawls was killed in a brutal skydiving crash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[171,172,15,242,20,231,263,264,10,246],"class_list":["post-7016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-airplanes","tag-airport","tag-ambulance","tag-athletics","tag-dead","tag-emergency","tag-football","tag-football-team","tag-paramedics","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}