A Texas man died of a massive stroke after the e-cigarette he was using exploded and tore his carotid artery.
William Brown died in a Fort Worth hospital on January 29 — just weeks shy of his 25th birthday,CNN reports .
The explosion reportedly happened on January 27, in the parking lot of a store that sells smoking and vaping supplies.
The manager of Smoke and Vape DZ told CNN affiliate KTVT that he called an ambulance after the explosion.
Brown had gone into the shop to ask for help using his vape pen, but did not buy anything, according to KTVT. The shop said they don’t sell that brand of vape pen.
Brown was rushed to the hospital and his family told KTVT that he was put into a medically-induced coma and that x-rays showed that part of the e-cigarette was lodged in his throat.
“That went across his lip, apparently somehow, and cut his lip,” said Brown’s grandmother. “
That three-piece thing went into his throat and stayed there,” his grandmother Alice Brown told KTVT.
She didn’t understand why doctors didn’t operate right away.
“He had a future ahead of him; a life ahead of him,” she said
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