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Demetrious Johnson, former Mizzou and NFL player, dies at 61

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Demetrious Johnson, a former University of Missouri and NFL player and charity organizer, has died. He was 61.

A St. Louis native, Johnson founded The Demetrius Johnson Foundation to help young people with mentoring programs, job training programs and after-school tutoring.

He reportedly died of aortic dissection.

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