The former football coach remembers the player who was killed by the drunk driver

Birmingham, ala. (WBRC) -William Hardrick, a college football player from Birmingham, was killed in a crash on the I -65 in Northern Alabama at the beginning of this week.

Hardrick played football at the Minor High School. He was currently playing with Austin Peay in Tennessee. Hardrick was on the way home to get his real ID when he destroyed on the I-65 outside of Huntsville. Josh McAdams is charged with his murder, together with the scene of the accident and driving under influence.

Hardrick's high school coach Adrian Abrams said that he would always remember Hardrick's smile that illuminated on the soccer field.

“Sometimes children go to this field of exercise as if they were running the green mile. And William came every day with a smile and a joy that was contagious,” said Abrams.

Abrams says that a brilliant future was taken away by Hardrick, but he will always remember the brightness he expanded to the life of people.

“The joy he came out of the years in which he lived, he lived every day as if it were his last. He gave everything. He lived from people. He has no doubt behind him, there is no person who could say something bad about him,” said Abrams.

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