US police detective has heart attack and dies during daughter’s wedding

It was meant to be the happiest day of Michelle Howard‘s life but the day quickly turned sour after her father Tim Buchanan suffered a fatal heart attack during the wedding.

The heart attack happened during the father-daughter dance.

Buchanan his wife Jeni, had traveled from the U.S. to San Jose in Costa Rica to see Michelle marry her fiance Lius Diego Granera on September 3.

Jeni Buchanan, a wedding photographer, shared a photograph of her and her husband at their daughter’s wedding moments before he died.

‘You never know when the last time will be the last time!‘ she posted alongside the picture on Facebook the following day. ‘Little did I know just a few hours later we would lose him.’