A 36-year-old rock fan collapsed and died at a King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard live performance in Colorado on Friday, based on stories.
Mathew Gawiak was watching the Aussie rockers on the Area of Imaginative and prescient Competition in Denver when he complained about feeling dizzy simply earlier than 9 p.m., lower than an hour into the present, Westword reported.
He went into cardiac arrest through the seventh tune of the set and the band stopped their present to permit medical personnel to extract the “diehard Gizzard fan,” based on stories and his household.
final Friday and died whereas being transported to a neighborhood hospital. GoFundMe
Gawiak, a geospatial scientist, was on the present along with his brother Chris, who shared the heartbreaking second his brother died.
“As myself and our buddies went to escort him out, he dropped to the ground, and was unresponsive,” Chris wrote on the King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Reddit web page.
“Fortunately, there have been 2 trauma nurses within the crowd who responded rapidly and began CPR whereas we fought off the overzealous and despatched runners for paramedics to take him to the medical tent.”
EMTs tried for 2 hours to stabilize Gawiak who was pronounced lifeless whereas en path to an space hospital.
“I simply need to say thanks to everybody for the outpouring of help you've proven my household,” Chris continued within the Reddit submit.
The heartfelt tribute revealed that Mathew's household and buddies gathered to observe the band's live performance on a dwell stream the next night time and have been shocked and grateful to see a a touching memorial for his or her cherished one.
“Listening to everybody chant his title introduced all of us to tears. “Float Alongside FIll Your Lings” was his all-time favourite nearer, and it's nonetheless certainly one of mine.”
Gawiak was remembered as a beloved husband, son, brother, uncle and buddy in a GoFundMe.
“His aim in life was to make the folks he cherished joyful. I discover some peace realizing that he was surrounded by music and a group that was particular to him and that he was really joyful within the moments earlier than he tragically handed away,” his spouse Ali Zangle wrote on the fundraiser.
