By OLIVER SALT

The baseball fan who fell over a 21-foot wall and crashed onto the field in Pittsburgh on Wednesday has been identified as a 20-year-old former college football player.

According to TribLive, the fan in question was Kavan Markwood – who played as a linebacker for the Wheeling University Cardinals.

A spokesperson for the South Allegheny School District, where Markwood played high school football, confirmed it is him currently fighting for his life at a hospital in Pittsburgh after the horror fall.

‘Everyone at South Allegheny would say he is a hard-working, highly resilient young man,’ the district rep, Laura Thomson, is quoted as saying. ‘He’s a fighter. He’s going to need that resiliency now.’

Thomson added: ‘He’s touched a lot of lives at South Allegheny. We’re a small community. He’s a household name here. Everyone knows him.

‘He has the prayers and the support of the South Allegheny community.’

More to follow.

The baseball fan who fell over a 21-foot wall has been identified as Kavan Markwood (pictured)

The baseball fan who fell over a 21-foot wall has been identified as Kavan Markwood (pictured)

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Identity of MLB fan hospitalized after falling over 21-foot wall during Pirates game is revealed

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