Former Penn State and Red Land basketball player dies at 28

Former Red Land High School and Penn State basketball player Jermaine Marshall has died at age 28. 

Marshall was playing basketball professionally in France for the Nantes Basketball Club. Nates announced that Marshall was found dead in his apartment. 

A cause of death was not released, but a translated statement on the team's website reads, "The NBH regrets to announce the brutal disappearance of Jermaine Marshall."

"The Club joins the pain of his family and loved ones and gives them all his support to face this terrible ordeal. The NBH is unable to play against ADA Blois on Saturday 19 January and has asked the LNB and ADA Blois to postpone the match at a later date."

Marshall graduated from Red Land in 2009 with a then-school record 1,425 points despite missing his entire senior season due to a torn patella tendon, according to an old report by the Carlisle Sentinel. 

He played three seasons at Penn State after redshirting his first year. Marshall came off the bench in 2011 for the last Nittany Lions team to reach the NCAA Tournament, and finished second on the team in scoring at 15.3 points per game as a junior in 2013. 

After getting his Penn State degree in the spring of 2013, Marshall decided to transfer to Arizona State for his senior season. He averaged 15.1 points for the Sun Devils and played in the NCAA Tournament for the second time. 

Marshall also played AAU basketball for the York Ballers, which expressed condolences to Marshall's family on Twitter. 

In a text message, former Red Land basketball coach Scott Slayton said that Marshall "inspired not only a program, but an entire community and those of us who were blessed to have witnessed it will forever be grateful and mourn the passing of a life taken far too soon. 

"In an age where so many elite athletes go out of their way to demand an individual spotlight be shined on them, Jermaine went out of his way to make sure his teammates always were standing by his side." 

Marshall's death comes a little more than two years after the death of his older brother, Jerome Curtis Marshall, who also graduated from Red Land.