Family: Ind. teen home 3 months after Mich. crash

FORT WAYNE, Ind. — The family of a high school basketball star from Fort Wayne says he has returned home more than three months after being badly hurt in a Michigan plane crash that killed his father and stepmother.

Austin Hatch’s family says it is “thankful and relieved” that he is home, but the statement emailed Sunday to The Journal Gazette didn’t say where he would be living.

Hatch was a star player at Canterbury High School in Fort Wayne and had accepted a scholarship to play basketball at the University of Michigan starting in 2013.

The June 24 crash of the single-engine plane his father was flying near Charlevoix, Mich., left Hatch with a serious head injury. The family says he still faces a long recovery.