Aggies' Sumlin: Family didn't feel safe after racist letter

Aggies' Sumlin: Family didn't feel safe after racist letter

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 2:21 p.m. ET

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin says his wife and four kids didn't feel safe after receiving a racist and threatening letter at their home this week.

His wife, Charlene Sumlin, posted a picture of the letter , which had a return address in Houston, on Twitter on Thursday night. The handwritten letter read: ''You suck as a coach! You're a (racial epithet) and can't win! Please get lost! Or else.''

Sumlin says: ''When you cross the line like that with people that have nothing to do with decisions that are made when it comes to my job, that's not OK.''

He added: ''The racial piece of that is one part of it, but the open-ended threat at the end at my house I've got to draw the line there.''

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The Brazos County Sheriff's Office has opened an investigation to find the person who sent the letter.

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