Johnson Street Sheffield: Man dies after suffering medical episode in Stocksbridge

Police have confirmed that a man sadly died after falling suddenly ill while out in Sheffield this morning.
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Emergency services were called to Johnson Street in Stocksbridge at 10.39am today, Tuesday, August 23, to reports of a man in his 70s suffering a ‘medical episode’.

A South Yorkshire Police spokeswoman said: “Members of the public and emergency services made attempts to help the man, but he was unfortunately pronounced dead at the scene.”

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She added that officers are not treating his death as suspicious.

The incident is understood to have happened at, or close to, the Co-op store on Johnson Street.