ROCK SPRING, Ga. – A family and team are grieving after 6-year-old Brantley Chandler, who was born with a rare heart defect, died after suffering a heart attack, according to WTVC.
His mom told News Channel 9 that Brantley was on the field with his baseball team about to take their team picture when he collapsed.
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Brantley was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, which stopped the left side of his heart from developing normally, according to his mother.
About 1 out of every 4,344 babies born in the United States each year is born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Brantley, a first-grader at Chickamauga Elementary School in Chickamauga, Georgia, died Thursday, according to his obituary.