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Man drops dead during football game
An overseas based Guyanese man collapsed and died yesterday evening during a friendly game of football at the Melanie Damishana Playfield.
Mark Anthony Sutton, 45, of 44 Niolopau Lane, Wailuku Hawaii, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) at about 19:00 hours.
Relatives indicated yesterday that the man was taking medication for heart problems after having done a bypass surgery in 2006 in the USA.
The deceased Mark Sutton
Sutton was on vacation and was in Guyana since early in January of this year.
As relatives wept at their 107, Melanie Damishana, East Coast Demerara home last night, some indicated that the man kept delaying his departure to Hawaii as he seemed not able to get enough of the tropical sun, breeze and jovial company of his many relatives and friends in and around the village.
His close friend, Dexter Grant of the said village (a footballer himself) said that Sutton had spent almost the entire day at the playfield where he was spearheading a massive cleanup campaign of that location.
He said the football game had almost died in the village but was revived by Sutton who ‘put a lot into it’ since he arrived in January.
Grant explained that while the now deceased Sutton would normally play for a short while and rest before continuing the game; he was however insistent yesterday that he must continue the game they were playing without stopping.
Grant noted that at one point Sutton reprimanded him for playing too close to him (Sutton) which forced him to move a short distance away from the player. It was then that misfortune struck.
According to Grant when he turned around, he noticed Sutton lying flat on the ground in a funny position with his body convulsing in spasms. “When I look around he was lying flat on his back so I rushed over to him. He was gasping for breath and held on to the grass with a vice like grip as his body jerked all over”.
Sutton was rushed by relatives to the GPHC but by then he had already died.
One relative said that while he was still breathing as he lay on the playfield, the breathing ceased altogether by the time they placed him in a car and sped for the city. While in the car Sutton was bleeding from his nostrils.
Footballers gathered at the home in Melanie Damishana, all in grief and shock at their pal’s sudden death. Sutton has left to grieve four children a wife, three sisters and two brothers.
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