Tragic: Son Dies of Heart Attack While Leaving Steelers Game After Learning Father Died of Heart Attack
- Posted on August 31, 2011 at 3:43pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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The McCauley family near Pittsburgh is reeling after losing both father and son in slightly more than an hour. Charles Sr., 83, died of a heart attack Saturday night at his home in North Huntingdon where he was watching the Pittsburgh Steelers preseason game on television.
His son, 54-year-old Charles Jr., was at that game. Upon learning of his father’s death Charles Jr. rushed out of Heinz Field with his wife when he suddenly felt chest pains and suffered a fatal hear attack of his own in the parking lot. WTAE 4 reports:
“‘We decided to get a hold of his son, Charles McCauley Jr., who was attending the Steelers game that evening. One of our paramedics talked with him and advised him to come home,’ Pocsatko said.
McCauley Jr. immediately left the stadium and walked a block to the Rivers Casino parking garage to get his car, but he never made it out, Pocsatko said.”
Charles Sr. was a widower and Charles Jr. was an only child. Father and son died one hour and seven minutes apart from each other.
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Comments (71)
Carol Ingian
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 7:45pmI feel very sorry for the family.
Report Post »Hopefully they will all see a doctor when they can, to rule out any inherited heart issues.
Stoic one
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 8:30pmWhy? mother,father and only son are dead. That branch of the family tree is gone.
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 9:19pmThat’s it, I’m never eating another hoagie as long as I have left to live.
Report Post »beans bullets and bandaids
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 10:15pmStoic One, because the elder deceased may have had siblings, nieces, and nephews and the younger may have children as well. Unless they were all only children and the son had no children, there could be people for whom a genetic connection could be a concern.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 7:44pmHow very sad and truly bizarre?? Lord please bless the family!
Report Post »ProPatriaVigilans
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 2:03amHasn’t god done enough to this family?
Report Post »SeanW
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 2:17am@ProPatriaVigilans
God never gives someone a burden they cannot bear. At least that’s what the Priests and Monsignors have told me when wondering the same thing. They continue, it is through faith in the Lord and in Jesus Christ that we know that we are not bearing these burdens alone and that faith will see us through anything.
Report Post »Poogie
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 6:57pmMy heart goes out to the family and friends. May God be with you and His peace in you in this time of grief…
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 6:31pmOh, how awful for that family. God bless them all. What a tragedy.
Report Post »applehill
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 6:24pmDa Bears… You all were thinking it!
Report Post »operagost
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 3:16pmNo, I was thinking, ” DA Bearssssssssss…”
Report Post »eramthgin
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 6:09pmDamn…..guess they both were needed elsewhere.
Report Post »OniKaze
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 5:46pmMy heartfelt condolences to this family. Its tough to lose a family member, its even tougher to lose two family members to the same cause, AND EVEN tougher still to lose two members to the same condition on the same day… It’s like a cruel joke.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 5:59pmIndeed, may God grant them peace of mind, heart and soul in the days to come; and help them to be able to recall the love and joy they both shared with one another as father and son, and as members of the family togeather.
Report Post »Heitah
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 5:31pm“fatal hear attack” lol? come on blaze spell check!
Report Post »mensaman62
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 5:47pmI “hear” you but spell check would not have caught this. A re-read would have been advisable.
I feel for this family. May God bless.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 5:10pmWow, that is so tragic. The odds of that happening is about the same when John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died, I believe, within one hour of each other on 4 July 1826.
May they both rest in peace and my condolences to the surviving family.
Report Post »Xpat48
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 4:54pmWOW. Boy if that don’t take the wind out of your sails.
Report Post »Pontiac
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 4:51pmPoor family diet…
Report Post »PATRIOTINTN
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 5:03pmYour compassion is amazing! Apparently, you don’t care about anyone but yourself. I hope nothing happens that causes you to need the care of others because you might be fighting the fight all alone. With an attitude like that, I wouldn’t be surprised.
Report Post »Calamity Jane
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 5:21pmPontiac….Totally uncalled for!
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 5:35pmGod and his silly pranks
Report Post »Pontiac
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 5:48pmWhat, I cant state an opinion? Kids will inevitably have same diet as their parents. Not all health problems are hereditary. This was indubitably brought about by their family eating habits. If I can’t bring attention to peoples poor choices then to hell with you.
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 6:39pmThis “compassion” is nothing. 30,000 children starve to death every day while we live the good life.
Report Post »Airb0rne4325
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 7:09pmYou can run from food (fats, transfats, satfats), you can run from liquids (beer, whiskey,wine), you can run for your life (jogging, training, exercise) but you CAN”T run from your family. Luck of the draw. Seen 4 stents in a 30 yr old? It can happen. Three little letters D-N-A “Ain’t no way to get away from D-N-A”
Report Post »Reavin
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 7:26pmIf the father died at the ripe old age of 83… how is that a bad diet? I bet most of the people that have “healthy diets” don’t live to 83. How long does somebody have to live before they are considered to have lived a healthy enough life to outlive the average person? 93? 103? 113?
Report Post »Biff Marupis
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 7:26pmI agree. You are a Richard Cranium!
Report Post »Pontiac
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 9:57pm@Airb0rne4325
Report Post »DNA? DNA might give you a different metabolism than the other guy but it didn’t shove corn dogs down your gullet. Hardened arteries aren’t genetic, they’re lifestyle.
Agnes
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 12:37amI have only word to say – MORON!
Report Post »Pontiac
Posted on September 1, 2011 at 10:59am@Agnes
Thanks for letting us know what you think of yourself with your limited vocabulary…
If anyone can refute heart disease (minus congenital defects) is brought on by lifestyle, please be my guest.
Report Post »Bernard
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 4:34pmThe story is tragic but looking at it in a spiritual way we all have only a certain time on earth and that time is short by most standards. Again looking at it in a spiritual way, the fact that both father and son were called by God is in twisted way, a blessing that both souls are now reunited in heaven. I know this will mean nothing to the grieving family, but after just losing my own mother not so long ago who died in the most peaceful and serene way, on the dawn of Easter Sunday, the day our Lord rose to heaven, body and soul. This time he took with him a little old lady. I always played the music of Shubert’s Ave Maria for her to go to sleep and it was playing the day she died. Ironically my father who passed away some years ago, died on Christmas, the second holiest day for Christians
Report Post »NO YOU CANT
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 4:33pmWhat a truly sad story.
Report Post »I lost my father almost 20 years ago at age 22. I still miss him to this day.
I for one, will be calling my 83 year old mother today. Just to remind her how much I love her.
angelcat
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 4:38pmI lost my son at age 20. They are still our little boys no matter how old they are. My sympathy goes to the family suffering a double loss at this time. May God give them strength and comfort and may family and friends give them the support they need. I couldn’t have survived and been sane without all of the above.
Report Post »VintageAmerican
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 4:29pmMoss,
Report Post »Your hypothesis may be one of the lamest I have ever seen or you may be correct but, didn’t anyone ever teach you that If you can’t say anything nice during someone else’s saddest hour maybe you should keep your mouth shut?
Insensitivity is a classic of the symptom of narcissism.
Detroit paperboy
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 4:11pmYikes , that is wierd … U never know when
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 3:54pmProbably grandpa had made a pact with the devil that if he could live a few more days then the devil could take his son. Satan didn’t take long to collect on what was due him.
Report Post »OneofMany
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 3:59pmAre you kidding me?? What a horrible thing to say when you don’t even know these two men.
Report Post »Califmoma5
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 4:09pmIs that because you have made a pact too? We have become so desensitized to death! God bless the family members that are earth bound!
Report Post »nate162000
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 4:10pmYou are a sick individual
Report Post »sparta48
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 4:13pmI totally agree what a horrible thing to say. Obviously you dont belong here if that is all you can come up with. My prayers go out to the family. Such a loss and tragedy on the same day.
Report Post »R4M0N
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 4:15pmI’m sure that sounded A LOT funnier in your head… in writing it just sounds completely tasteless.
Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 4:19pm@Mossbrain -You have proven many times by your ridiculous illogical comments that you are mentally defective. Get help, get God, stay on your meds and stay the hell away from this website. Perhaps part of your mental illness is being a masochist as well as a sadist and you come here to be spanked by superior intellects and told how worthless you are. Well this is it for me, I will ignore you from now on and hope you just go away you turd.
Report Post »RavenGlenn
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 4:19pmReally MOSS? That’s all you liberal trolls can come up with? A terribly over exaggerated religious nut?
You lefties need to grow up at some point in your lives. I don’t care for the overly religious right myself, but to make such an idiotic and truly sick comment over the loss of two lives is just wrong. You need to get help.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 4:24pmNo pact, it was just a lifestyle of eating fatty foods (by looking at the picture of the family) or genetics, and a coincidence.
Report Post »VintageAmerican
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 4:27pmMOSSBRAIN,
Report Post »Your hypothesis may be one of the lamest I have ever seen or you may be correct but, didn’t anyone ever teach you that If you can’t say anything nice during someone else’s saddest hour maybe you should keep your mouth shut?
Insensitivity is a classic of the symptom of narcissism.
UlyssesP
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 6:46pmAwww, look the little kiddie posted a comment….how cute.
Report Post »Poogie
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 6:50pmMan! I guess you got moss for a brain! Good grief!
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 3:53pmBlessings of comfort for the wife and any family. We are told to comfort those who mourn, may they have many kind and loving arms around them, and may God speak peace to their hearts.
Report Post »PeachyinGA
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 3:52pmHealing prayers for the McCauley family.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 3:52pm“Tragic: Blaze Editor, Christopher Santarelli Dies of Heart Attack After Publishing Blaze Story of Son Dying of Heart Attack Leaving Steelers Game After Learning Father Died of Heart Attack”
Report Post »hippocritic-us
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 4:38pmTragic: Your post.
Report Post »islandlady
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 3:51pmSometimes I too wonder if there are no coincidences. I believe the soul is much deeper and more affected by things than we know. My grandmother upon learning her mother had died, came out of a 7 year comma, climbed out of bed and fell, causing a clot that killed her the next day.
Report Post »One thing for sure, Love has no boundaries in this life or the next, and like the truth it has no agenda.
mossbrain
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 3:59pmThe work of the devil I tells ya.
Report Post »Jonny Quest
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 8:40pmMossbrain, you’re just a coward.
You and I both know that if you had to attach your real name to your comments, you’d never post them.
Come on. Grow up and be a man for once in your life.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 3:49pmAfter reading that story, I‘m short of breath and can’t feel my arm.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 4:04pmThat would be a trifecta…
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 3:49pmWow! Really I typed, “WOW!” but all caps wouldn’t work. I don’t know about you all, but as much as I love my father, that would have been cool.
Report Post »southkakalak
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 3:48pmLets hope the steelers do something for the family
Report Post »BSdetector
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 4:05pmYea those killers should be brought to justice! Where’s Holder???
Report Post »pap pap
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 3:47pmOMG this is terrible. May God be with them and their family.
Report Post »ares338
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 3:45pmJeez……that’s really crappy.
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on August 31, 2011 at 4:15pmThis is just…..unbelievably tragic. I cant even imagine what the wife/mom is and will be going through. I’m praying God will grant her the strength to get through it.
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