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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
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María Méndez

MYSTERIOUS: When showing up at the texas capitol made a difference | Mind Blowing Facts

Members of Austin's LGBT community gather on the steps of the capitol to celebrate the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots on June 28, 2017.
Members of Austin’s LGBTQ community gather on the steps of the Capitol to celebrate the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots and protest the “bathroom bill” on June 28, 2017. After hundreds of people lobbied against it, that bill failed. (Credit: Austin Price for The Texas Tribune)

Cody Stephens, a Crosby High School senior, had planned to attend Tarleton State University on a football scholarship when he died of sudden cardiac arrest while asleep on his father’s recliner on May 6, 2012.

Months later, when Scott Stephens realized an electrocardiogram — a noninvasive test of electrical activity in the heart — could have saved his son, he made it his mission to get more student-athletes screened.

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