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 VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - A 55-year-old Chester woman died Wednesday after being stabbed in the chest by a beach umbrella that had been caught in the wind. 
 
 Virginia Beach Police responded to the beach at 33rd Street just after 5 p.m. after receiving calls about a woman in cardiac arrest. 
 
 Medics arrived and transported the woman to a local hospital, but she died as a result of her injury. She has been identified as Lottie Michelle Belk. 
 
 The investigation revealed that an anchored beach umbrella got caught by a strong gust of wind and blew across the sand. Police said the umbrella stabbed Belk in the chest. 
 
 Chief Medical Examiner Donna Price says Belk's cause of death was penetrating blunt force chest trauma. Price also says the death was accidental. 
 
 The Virginia Beach Police Department Homicide Unit is currently investigating this incident. 
 
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 According to Tom Gill, Captain of the Virginia Beach Lifesaving Service, this is the first time he has ever heard of someone being killed by an umbrella in the Resort City. Gill says he has heard of people being injured by an umbrella that gets loose, but considers Belks' death, a freak accident. 
 
 Beachgoers can still protect themselves by securing their umbrellas with a stake and ropes. Gill says it is also important to readjust and check your umbrella after strong bursts of wind. If winds seem too strong, Gill suggests taking the umbrella down. 
 
 Owner of Surfing Adventure and Ocean Rentals, Rob Lindaur, says the umbrella should always face the wind. 
 
 If the wind is 15 mph or higher, he recommends lying the umbrella on the ground and installing it like a fort. 
 
 Whether you are taking a simple walk to the water or down the beach, Lindaur says to never leave the umbrella. 
 
 "It's just being vigilant," he says. "Just collapse it, it's so easy, then pop it right back up when you're sitting next to it." 
 
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 VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – A woman was killed at Virginia Beach on Wednesday when a wind-blown beach umbrella stabbed her in the chest. 
 
 The 56-year-old woman was on the beach when the anchored umbrella blew across the sand and struck her in the chest, officials told WTKR. There is no evidence of foul play. 
 
 Police said they received a call for a cardiac arrest on the beach at 33rd Street just after 5 p.m. 
 
 When crews arrived, the woman was found suffering from a life threatening injury. She was transported to a local hospital where she later died. 
 
 "It was pretty windy down here. It kind of looked like something from the Wizard of Oz. Literally. Saw the umbrella go up in the air, and literally hit the woman, knocking her to the side. Immediately, the lifeguards, and people start rushing around. It was probably the most scariest things I've ever seen," said Hugh Martin, who works on the boardwalk. 
 
 Martin says the woman was talking to children when she was struck. 
 
 The Virginia Beach Police Department Homicide Unit is currently investigating the incident.
– A celebratory day at the beach turned to tragedy after a woman was killed Wednesday when a beach umbrella blew out of the sand and stabbed her in the chest, WHNT reports. WTKR IDs the woman as Lottie Michelle Belk (the station says she was 55; WHNT says she was 56), who was lounging along the shore off of 33rd Street in Virginia Beach, Va., when an anchored umbrella was swept up by a gust and blown in her direction, impaling her. Virginia Beach Police say they received a call just after 5pm of a woman in cardiac arrest, and when rescuers arrived on the scene, they found Belk suffering from the umbrella injury. She was taken to a local hospital, where she died. Wind gusts in the area where Belk was killed were said to be between 20mph and 25mph, per WAVY. "It was pretty windy down here," says Hugh Martin, a boardwalk worker at the beach who was interviewed by WTVR. "It kind of looked like something out of like Wizard of Oz." Martin says he witnessed the umbrella fly up into the air and knock Belk down—"probably one of the scariest things that I've ever seen," he adds. Belk's family is now mourning the Chesterfield mental health professional, who'd been celebrating both her wedding anniversary and upcoming birthday in Virginia Beach. Her oldest daughter tells WTVR that Belk was a "loving lady" who'd just recently received her master's degree in business. (An assailant hid a Kalashnikov in an umbrella before last year's attack on a Tunisian beach.)