3rd snow-related death in Valley

STAFF REPORT

POLAND — A third snow-related death has been reported in Mahoning County in recent days.

Donald J. Walsh Jr., 65, of 6923 North Lima Road, Poland Township, died Sunday in St. Elizabeth Health Center.

After a 911 call at 11:14 a.m. Saturday, Western Reserve Joint Fire District emergency medical technicians found Walsh inside his residence, after he had complained he didn’t feel well after shoveling snow, said Fire Chief David C. Comstock Jr.

The EMTs used a defibrillator on him in his residence after his wife, Carol, performed CPR on him, Comstock said. A Rural Metro ambulance took him to St. Elizabeth in Boardman.

“People have to be careful exerting themselves with these weather conditions, and keep in mind that, if there is an emergency, whether it’s fire or medically related, weather conditions slow down the emergency personnel’s response. We just can’t get there as fast as we would like to,” Comstock said Wednesday.

In another case, police found an 84-year-old man dead outside of his East Pine Lake Road condominium in North Lima.

Carl Frost, Beaver Township police chief, said police were called about 11:45 a.m. Tuesday to the home of William Halter.

Family members called neighbors, asking them to check on him. The neighbors called police.

Halter was found on the front porch, and it appears he had been dead two days.

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