Hospital: Local coach survives ‘widowmaker’ heart attack

ENGLEWOOD — Jeremy Martin, a longtime area coach and community volunteer, had a recent brush with death after suffering a “widowmaker” heart attack while alone at his hurricane-damaged home.

Martin, a local businessman and former Venice High girls basketball coach, was working to restore his home on Little Gasparilla Island, a barrier island off Placida in western Charlotte County, when he began experiencing chest pain and indigestion, HCA Florida Englewood Hospital reported.

He called his wife, Joey Martin, and said, “Something is seriously wrong.”…

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