MADERA, Calif. ( KSEE/KGPE ) – The family of a man who died following a medical emergency at a Madera school says his loss has left a void felt throughout the community.
On Feb. 28, Madera Police responded to a medical emergency at the parking lot of St. Joachim’s Catholic School of Madera. Gregory Bonogofsky suffered a fatal heart attack while picking up his daughter, 11-year-old Mackenzie Grace.
Steffanie McClintock is Mackenzie’s older sister; she says Gregory Bonogofsky had been complaining about shortness of breath the week before the emergency.
“He had gone to see a doctor the day before he passed away,” McClintock said. “They just told him to follow up with a cardiologist and gave him a high blood pressure medicine.”…