Chilling 911 call released after AEW star PAC’s sudden death at 40

Chilling 911 call released after AEW star PAC’s sudden death at 40

New 911 audio from the Chicago-area parking lot where AEW wrestler PAC was found unresponsive on September 27 details how a woman getting into her own vehicle discovered the 40-year-old…

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The woman had already spent minutes trying to wake the driver in the car next to hers when she dialed 911 from the CAVA restaurant parking lot on Mannheim Road in Des Plaines, Illinois.

“I’m at the CAVA on Mannheim Road in Des Plaines and I was getting in my car and the person next to me is passed out in their car,” she told the dispatcher, according to audio obtained by Yahoo Sports.

The call was logged at 3:53 p.m. Benjamin Satterley, the 40-year-old British wrestler known to AEW fans simply as PAC, was pronounced dead 15 minutes later, at 4:08 p.m.

The caller told the operator that she and others had been banging on the driver’s window for roughly five minutes with no response. His eyes were open. His face was turned down. The engine was running.

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“I don’t see his chest moving at all,” she said.

His flight home was due at 3:30

Des Plaines sits around two miles north of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. PAC’s phone, investigators later found, had been navigating him there, with a flight back to the UK originally scheduled for approximately 3:30 p.m. that had been delayed. His luggage was still in the vehicle, a police report detailed by Yahoo Sports shows.

Medication was recovered from the rental car, though the specific substance was redacted from the public report. His shirt bore what appeared to be dried saliva.

The night before, he had wrestled at AEW All Out at NOW Arena in Hoffman Estates, the company’s Chicago-area pay-per-view on Saturday, September 26.

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The cause of death is still unknown

The Cook County Medical Examiner’s office has completed an autopsy but has not released a cause or manner of death, saying both will be determined only after additional testing that could take several weeks. Des Plaines police have said there are no immediate indications of foul play.

As of early October, toxicology results had not been released.

From Neville to PAC

Satterley spent roughly six years with WWE under the name Adrian Neville. He held the NXT Championship, the NXT Tag Team Championship and the WWE Cruiserweight Championship, a run that earned him the nickname “The Man That Gravity Forgot.” He joined AEW at its launch in 2019, won the All-Atlantic Championship in 2022, and later took the AEW World Trios Championship alongside Claudio Castagnoli and Wheeler Yuta as part of the Death Riders faction.

Tributes have come from across the industry in the days since. Fellow British wrestler and AEW World Champion Will Ospreay called him “the greatest export from our country” and “also the greatest human being.” Longtime AEW referee Bryce Remsburg wrote about a decades-long friendship.

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“To many, he was a bastard,” Remsburg wrote. “To me, he was an incredible friend for 20 years.”

The medical examiner’s testing continues.

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