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Massachusetts high school student, 17, drops dead during wrestling practice
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Posted on 09/26/2024 8:39:59 AM PDT by algore

A fit and healthy teenage boy suddenly died during wrestling practice after suffering a medical emergency.

Freddy Espinal, a 17-year-old aspiring police officer, tragically died on Sunday, prompting an outpouring of grief from his tightknit Massachusetts community.

More than 100 friends and students from Peabody gathered on Tuesday night to farewell the popular, charismatic student.

His girlfriend, Gisella Candido, told the crowd at the vigil that Freddie 'was stubborn, caring, [and] would always go out of his way to make sure that people were OK.'

'At first, it was unbelievable. I was just with him on Friday. Like, I just saw him. I was just hugging him, holding him and then, like, just like that, it's like, he's gone.'

District Attorney Paul Tucker worked with Espinal over the summer after meeting with the teenager and his dad 'to talk about his interest in becoming a police officer someday.'

At the time, he described Espinal as a 'respectful, polite and personable young man who will follow his dream and succeed.'

On Tuesday, he issued a moving tribute, noting 'life sometimes presents unimaginable tragedies, and this being one hurts so many to the core.

'Freddy’s life was cut short by a medical emergency while at wrestling practice.

'His close knit family, friends and classmates are left in grief wondering why.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: algore

Seventeen is middle-aged for the jabbed.


21 posted on 09/26/2024 9:09:58 AM PDT by fwdude
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To: algore
I remember doing handstand push-ups at keggers to impress the girls. I was 5’ 10”, 135 pounds and could bench press 260 pounds. When running stairs during practice I used to take them 4 at a time. So long ago.
22 posted on 09/26/2024 9:16:12 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: algore

Lower the curve.


23 posted on 09/26/2024 9:17:04 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: algore

They were at practice on a Sunday?


24 posted on 09/26/2024 9:18:04 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: algore

I think these deaths are occurring because these are silver spooners who weren’t allowed to drink out of a water hose. They didn’t have to go through a rough childhood, most of which was spent outside regardless of the weather. Think about that.


25 posted on 09/26/2024 9:18:05 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Jamaican/Injun "immigration" plan. Dilute and pollute until America is a third world sewer..)
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To: cgbg

Medical Emergwncy is making a run at it.


26 posted on 09/26/2024 9:26:08 AM PDT by Spacetrucker ("You Missed,BI*CH" Tom MacDonald )
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To: algore

What is striking is the number of fatal events on supposedly fit, young athletes who one would expect an initial attack not to be fatal. Additionally, we need legitimate mandatory autopsy reports on these ‘died suddenly’ events to document what is going on. It unnerves me to no end to hear the fall broadcasts again urging everyone to get your flu and covid ‘injections’ all at once.


27 posted on 09/26/2024 9:26:38 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: DugwayDuke

For months now I’ve been hearing PSAs on the radio explaining that, yes indeed, children and toddlers can and do suffer heart attacks and strokes. This is a far cry from the traditional skinned knees and chicken pox.


28 posted on 09/26/2024 9:45:02 AM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: iontheball

You have died of suddenly.


29 posted on 09/26/2024 9:45:31 AM PDT by spincaster
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To: algore

Been a lot of that going around.


30 posted on 09/26/2024 9:47:20 AM PDT by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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To: desertsolitaire

He would have had a medical exam just last month to play a school sport.


31 posted on 09/26/2024 9:58:47 AM PDT by bgill
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To: algore

Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique?


32 posted on 09/26/2024 10:03:31 AM PDT by Mashood
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To: Mashood

Or the “Quart Of Blood Technique”...You do that, a quart of blood will drop out a person’s body. ·


33 posted on 09/26/2024 10:05:50 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: bgill

As I recall, news articles focusing on teen athlete deaths (at school), led to lay person AICDs automatic cardiac defibrillators being installed more widely in schools and at athletic events. I wonder if it also caused more thorough screening for such at athlete sport physicals.


34 posted on 09/26/2024 10:08:51 AM PDT by desertsolitaire ( Lee Harvey Oswald and the Bands final performance)
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To: fwdude

Poor kid died of a broken heart (if COVID inflammation was involved).

Cause still speculation on our part.


35 posted on 09/26/2024 10:17:58 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: KC_Conspirator

The damage is permanent
Even if mild, can lead to a fatal arrhythmia if it affect just that part of the heart, and is triggered by a stressor…..even the heart changes on wakening in early dawn ( hence the suddenly died in bed cases)

Dr McCullough has written about this


36 posted on 09/26/2024 10:25:57 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: mware

Have a cousin who coaches HS wrestling & he was trying to talk my son into it. Told him having teenage boy drop 10 lbs in a day was abusive and no one wants another guys nuts in their face.


37 posted on 09/26/2024 10:28:00 AM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: wildcard_redneck

That’s pretty good. In HS I was 5’ 8” and 148 and I could bench 315. I did a 5-4-3-2-1 workout starting with 5 reps at 225 and gradually working up to 275. The football players would just look at me but it was my only lift. The running back broke the national squat record at 545 in a tournament. I think he weighed about 180.


38 posted on 09/26/2024 10:31:22 AM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: mware
Prayers for family and friends.

Amen.

39 posted on 09/26/2024 10:33:33 AM PDT by Allegra
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To: KC_Conspirator

The damage is permanent
Even if mild, can lead to a fatal arrhythmia if it affect just that part of the heart, and is triggered by a stressor…..even the heart changes on wakening in early dawn ( hence the suddenly died in bed cases)

Dr McCullough has written about this


40 posted on 09/26/2024 10:33:50 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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