MARIETTA, Ga. – A 7-year-old boy who was playing baseball in his front yard was hit in the chest by a line drive and died of cardiac arrest.
First-grader Nader Parman II was hit directly over his heart, causing sudden cardiac death.
“So many variables have to fall in place for this fatal abnormal heart rhythm to occur,” said Dr. Mark Link, associate professor of medicine at Tufts New England Medical Center in Boston.
About five to 10 such deaths are reported yearly, Link said.
The boy’s parents said Nader was playing with a 15-year-old neighbor when it happened.
The teen told Cobb County police he tossed a baseball in the air intending to hit a pop fly for the younger boy. Instead, the teen hit a line drive that struck Nader in the chest.
Nader’s mother, Sherri Parman, said her husband ran outside, carried the boy indoors and performed CPR.
The teen, considered a “big brother to a lot of kids in the neighborhood,” was devastated by the accident, his parents said.
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