I recall someone telling me a long, looooong time ago about a story they heard. The story went something like this: there was a priest in South America, I think Colombia, who was involved with the cocaine trade. This priest was apprehended by troops in his church, at which point he had a heart attack and died because he had been scared to death by the commotion they created bursting in. As my friend put it, “they barged in with M-16s and gas masks and the guy just had a heart attack.”
Is this real-life case of someone being literally startled to death true or a figment of someone’s imagination (or a Tom Clancy novel or something?)