Hackensack, N.J. – More than two dozen family members and friends held a bedside vigil Sunday for Jason Ray, the North Carolina student who suits up as the school’s mascot. He was in extremely critical condition after being hit by a car.
The 21-year-old senior remained on life support Sunday, two days after he was struck near his hotel in Fort Lee. Ray, who portrays UNC’s ram mascot, Rameses, was in New Jersey for the game between the Tar Heels and Southern California.
Ray’s father, Emmitt, who flew to New Jersey after getting word of his son’s lifethreatening head injuries, said doctors hold out little hope for his son’s recovery “short of the intervention of the Lord.”
Jody Stewart, a family friend, said about 30 of Ray’s family and friends were at Hackensack University Medical Center on Sunday, including his parents, Emmitt and Charlotte Ray, and two brothers (one who lives in Highlands Ranch), and five high school friends.
