Teen dies after horror backflip accident
Mr Blundell had been performing a backflip when he hit his head.
He had just moved to the Sunshine State from the NSW Central Coast to start a new life with his girlfriend, where he had been offered a concreting job. Sonny John Orlando Blundell suffered critical injuries performing a backflip in a Queensland apartment, with his family confirming he passed away in hospital on Tuesday. GoFundMe Credit: Supplied
Mr Blundell's sister Izabella Cromack-Hay told The Courier Mail that she had Facetimed him on the day he hit his head.
'He hit his head in the lounge room on the ground and had a headache went to bed, woke up went to the toilet vomiting and then passed out that's when his best friend found him unresponsive in the morning,' she said.
Mr Blundell was left in a coma in the Queensland Hospital Intensive Care Unit, fighting the brain injury. Mr Blundell fought for his life in Queensland Hospital ICU. GoFundMe Credit: Supplied
In a GoFundMe organised by his sister she said that Mr Blundell had been 'fighting this battle' as much as he could, but in an update on Tuesday she confirmed he had died in hospital, surrounded by his family and loved ones.
The crowd-funding page has raised over $23,000, with proceeds going towards bringing Mr Blundell home and organising his funeral.
'I ask everyone to still support our family as we need to bring Sonny home as his sisters are waiting for him,' Ms Cromack-Hay wrote on the page.
'We are all here in Queensland trying our hardest to organize this horrible time and prepare ourselves.
'We are all in disbelief and major pain.'
Tributes for the teenager flowed on social media, including from his mother Madeline Blundell who wrote: 'I'll bring you home my boy, my love, my soul and my heart, my best friend and my shoulder to laugh with and cry.
'I miss you so much my baby. Ma is here.'
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