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Title: Family blames football for child's early death as new CTE data emerges

Just over a year before his death, James suffered a brutal hit to the head while playing football as a lineman. After the game, his dad noticed blood around his ear. "He was known in the neighborhood as a kid who'd fall down and just get right back up and go play and he didn't, he never cried. I talked to him about these things and he said, 'Well, I get my bell rung all the time playing football.' And it was shocking to me to hear that," Ransom said. James' sister, Julia, said his personality began to change immediately after the hit. "You could just look into his eyes and he just wasn't the same person. And just, you could see that inside he knew he was hurting and he was struggling so that was really hard to deal with as a sibling just seeing that happen and not knowing what to do," Julia said. James suffered from short-term memory and vision loss and OCD. He attempted suicide just three months after the hit and was committed into a mental institution for a month. Nearly a year later, he took his own life. "He was happy," Ransom said. "Friendly kid, compassionate kid."