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Omaha Steve

(99,582 posts)
Wed Jan 16, 2013, 10:49 PM Jan 2013

Omaha police officer, 42, dies after workout


Most of you know I transferred to the Dept. back in August.

http://www.omaha.com/article/20130116/NEWS/130119700/1685#omaha-police-officer-42-dies-after-workout

An Omaha police officer died Wednesday after being rushed to a hospital from a local gym.

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OMAHA POLICE DEPARTMENT
Torrey Gully

Paramedics performed CPR on Officer Torrey Gully, 42, but he was unresponsive, said Lt. Darci Tierney, a police spokeswoman.

Gully was pronounced dead at Methodist Hospital. The cause of death was not immediately known.

FULL story at link.

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Omaha police officer, 42, dies after workout (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jan 2013 OP
Really, really sad. MannyGoldstein Jan 2013 #1
De Frib above politics. If politics were ever an issue. Loudly Jan 2013 #2
Awful,too young---and 2 girls left fatherless. virgogal Jan 2013 #3
 

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)
1. Really, really sad.
Wed Jan 16, 2013, 10:52 PM
Jan 2013

We have a law in Mass. that gyms need defibrillators. If his gym didn't have one, it probably would have helped.

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