FORT WORTH (1080 KRLD) - The family of a man who died in Fort Worth last week says an exploding "vape pen" killed him.
According to reports, 24-year-old William Brown died January 29, several days after his device exploded in his car.
His grandmother says Brown was sitting outside a shop near Golden Triangle and Beach Street when the vape pen exploded.
"He should be alive and living his life right now," says Alice Brown. She says pieces of metal hit her grandson in the head, and the device melted the ashtray in his car.
Alice Brown says William died several days later when doctors had trouble removing a three inch piece of metal that was lodged in his head. The Tarrant Couty Medical Examiner says a piece of metal cut Brown's carotid artery.
"It's crazy. Don't do it. That's the best advice I could tell you," she says. "He was just a beautiful person, a great heart. He donated all his organs."
The case is the second in the US involving someone killed by an exploding vape pen or electronic cigarette. Last year, a man in St. Petersburg, Florida died when his e-cigarette exploded in his bedroom, starting a fire.
The medical examiner in that case says that man suffered burns over 80 percent of his body and died from shrapnel hitting him in the head.