30: Shaun Best

Shaun Best, a former Winnipeg Sun photographer who later travelled the globe for Reuters, died of a heart attack Saturday. He was 44.

A Montreal Gazette story says Best and longtime partner, Denise Duguay, were driving home from a post-Canadian Grand Prix dinner with other photographers when he had the attack.

A Winnipeg Sun story says news of his death surfaced on Twitter, with Sun Media columnist Terry Jones writing from Montreal: "Media here at Canadian Grand Prix rocked by the death of photographer Shaun Best."

The story says a former colleague remembers Best getting his start as a freelance photographer with the Sun when in high school. In the 1990s, he moved to Montreal to work for Reuters.

“It's a real shock,” Winnipeg Sun photographer Brian Donogh says in the story. “He was a friendly guy and very hardworking. He was dedicated to his work and had a real touch for sports photography.”

Other Tweets from journalists indicate Best was scheduled to travel to Boston to shoot tonight's Game 6 of the Stanley Cup.