Young and fit Gold Coast tradie collapses during a game of OzTag and dies as GoFundMe is set up

A young and healthy apprentice tradie has died after he collapsed during a game of OzTag – with friends and family sharing tributes to a ‘loving soul with a heart of gold’.

Caleb Pace, 20, died in Gold Coast Hospital at about 4.30am on Friday after he was ‘fighting for his life’ in a coma.

Caleb, who worked as an apprentice electrician in the Gold Coast, was playing a game of OzTag when he collapsed on the field and went into cardiac arrest on June 20.

Bystanders performed CPR on the young man as an ambulance was called to the sporting ground.

Caleb was taken to hospital where he was put on life support and placed in an induced coma.

A GoFundMe page was set up by family friend Jessica Trevor to support his devastated mother Michelle, father Tony and brother Cy, 19.

‘Everyone who has been privileged enough to have met you and known you is praying,’ Ms Trevor wrote on the page.

Tributes have been shared for Caleb after he tragically died while surrounded by family on Friday.

His parents and brother said he was an ‘incredibly generous, giving, caring, kind and loving soul with a heart of pure gold’.

‘He will always be remembered as a true angel by all who knew him and had the privilege to meet him,’ they told the Gold Coast Bulletin. 

Michelle expressed her anguish over the loss of her son in a post to Facebook, saying her heart was ‘broken’ and she was ‘in so much pain’.

‘My baby is gone and life will never be the same,’ she wrote.

‘He was the kindest, purest soul you would ever meet.’

‘His smile, his laugh, his warmth.’

‘He was an angel on earth and now he has his wings.’

Friends and family have shared tributes to the Caleb (pictured left with friends), describing him as a ‘generous’, ‘kind’ and ‘loving soul’ 

Michelle expressed her anguish over the loss of her son in a post on Facebook, saying that her heart was ‘broken’ and she was ‘in so much pain’

One friend said Caleb ‘was so loved and was taken too soon’.

‘You will be loved and missed by all who met you,’ wrote another.

One woman added that the tragedy ‘broke my heart’. 

Ms Trevor said the funds raised through the GoFundMe page would go towards financially supporting Caleb’s family and allow them to grieve in peace. 

‘The aim of this GoFundMe is to help this family be a family again,’ she said. 

She added that the money would also help find a new home for Michelle and Cy in Queensland after Michelle struggled to find a place for her and her two sons amidst the state’s rental crisis.

The GoFundMe page can be found here.