A 6-year-old died boy of a sudden heart attack while taking baseball team pictures in Rock Spring, Georgia, WTVC reports. Brantley Chandler took his solo photo in his baseball uniform, and was on the field getting ready to take the team picture when he collapsed, his mom, Meghan Bryson told WTVC.
Bryson said her son was born with a rare congenial heart defect called Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. The condition, known as HLHS, is a birth defect that affects normal blood flow through the heart, according to the CDC. "As the baby develops during pregnancy, the left side of the heart does not form correctly," the CDC says.
The heart defect occurs in 960 babies born in the United States each year. Symptoms in newborns include problems breathing, pounding heart, weak pulse, or ashen or bluish skin color, according to the CDC.
The 6-year-old died on March 28, 2019 at 8:53 p.m., according to an obituary published by Lane Funeral Home. "Brantley was an outgoing little boy who was in the first grade at Chickamauga Elementary School," the obit reads. "When he was not playing baseball, Brantley could be found enjoying what the outdoors had to offer."
"He loved hunting, fishing, spending time with his hunting dog 'Boss,' riding four wheelers, and playing in the mud getting his boots dirty! Brantley could ask more questions than anyone in a minute, he loved tractors and heavy equipment, and he attended Faith Baptist Church in Ringgold," the obituary reads.
