A newly released 911 call captures the moment a bystander found AEW wrestler Benjamin “Pac” Satterley unresponsive in a running car, minutes before he was pronounced dead.
On Sept. 27, a woman walking to her vehicle at a CAVA on Mannheim Road in Des Plaines, Ill., noticed the person in the car beside hers was passed out and called for help around 3:53 p.m.
First responders arrived within minutes, performed life-saving measures, and pronounced 40-year-old Benjamin Satterley dead at 4:08 p.m. the same afternoon. Satterley, known across professional wrestling as Pac, had competed for All Elite Wrestling the night before.
Audio from that call, obtained and reported by The Post, lays out how quickly the scene turned grim.
The woman told the dispatcher exactly where she was and what she saw.
"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 first described the person as a woman, then corrected herself.
"It's a man, I'm sorry."
She said the car was still running and that she and others had already tried to get a response.
"We've been banging on the window for I want to say, like, five minutes now,"
The description grew worse. The man’s face was straight down. His eyes appeared open. She could not see his chest moving at all. In the audio, she made clear he was not responsive at all.
That call came about fifteen minutes before officials in Des Plaines formally pronounced him deceased.
Satterley had been in the Chicago area for an AEW event at the NOW Arena. The night before his death, he wrestled against Andrade.
A Des Plaines Police Department incident report fills in the hours leading up to the 911 call. An officer reached a woman who knew Satterley by using the phone found with him. She told police she last spoke with him around 1:20 p.m.
"She last spoke to Benjamin on the phone around 1320 hours and he relayed he was going to CAVA for lunch."
She also described his recent travel. He had been working as a professional wrestler on the road across the United States for about three weeks and had been in the Chicago area since the Thursday or Friday before. His return flight to the United Kingdom had been delayed. He was scheduled to leave around 3:30 p.m.
Inside the car, police found his phone open to Google Maps with a route to O’Hare Airport still displayed. Medication was also found in the vehicle. The type was redacted in the report as presented.
The incident report stated Satterley’s body did not show injuries or suspicious markings beyond what appeared to be saliva on the front of his shirt.
No arrests were described. No criminal theory was laid out in the material released with the call and the report. The focus remained on the medical outcome and the scene as officers found it.
A spokesperson for the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office later said an initial autopsy had been completed. The official cause of death remains pending additional testing.
As of the reporting on the 911 audio and the police account, several basic facts are fixed. Satterley was found unresponsive in a running car in a restaurant parking lot. Bystanders could not rouse him. Life-saving efforts failed. He was pronounced dead a quarter-hour after the call. He had wrestled the previous night, told a contact he was heading to lunch, and still had a delayed flight home on his schedule that afternoon.
What is not fixed is the cause. The medical examiner has not closed the case. The medication found in the car has not been publicly identified. No official has tied the saliva on his shirt, the redacted medication, or the timeline to a final medical finding.
That gap matters. A sudden death after a road stretch of shows invites rumor. The record so far does not support one. It supports a narrow set of verified details and an unfinished autopsy process.
Fans, colleagues, and anyone who followed Pac’s work are left with the same hard facts the bystander put on the phone: a man in a parked car, unresponsive, with the engine still running, and no recovery once help arrived.
When the testing is done, the public should get a clear cause, not a vacuum filled by guesswork.
