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St. Louis police have confirmed that a 68-year-old man died during yesterday’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade & Irish Festival in Dogtown.
Police spokeswoman Evita Caldwell told the the man “suffered a medical emergency and was transported to the hospital where he was pronounced deceased.” The police did not release the man’s name.
Todd Alan saw the events unfold at the parade, which resumed yesterday for the first time in two years. Alan tells us:
Alan said that prior to the ambulance’s arrival, a woman who works as a trauma nurse jumped over the parade fencing and ran to the man on the ground. She started chest compressions, but to no avail. “She said he was pretty much gone when he hit the ground and they couldn’t save him,” Alan said, adding: “I wish I’d gotten her name because she was really trying her best to do something heroic.”
Alan also says he saw another man pass out, just a few minutes earlier.
KSDK is also reporting that a man was shot at a Dogtown party yesterday:
