22-year old Devon Staples was instantly killed on the Fourth of July when he accidentally set off fireworks from his head. He was making friends laugh with a mortar tube on his head and a lighter in ...

The parents of a 22-year-old who was killed after a live firecracker exploded on his head are calling for stricter fireworks regulations. Russ Staples tells the Bangor Daily News that his son Devon ...

Staples was celebrating the 4th of July with friends in Maine on Saturday night when he allegedly put a fireworks mortar tube on top of his head and set it off. The firework exploded, killing him ...

The 22-year-old Maine man who died after waving a lit firework near his head on Independence Day thought the mortar tube was a dud and was trying, like he always did, to just make his friends laugh.

Devon Staples always wanted to make people happy, said those who knew him, but on Independence Day that special quality cost him his life. The 22 year-old died in a freak fireworks accident during a ...

Those close to Devon Staples, who died when he lit fireworks on his head on the Fourth of July, said Monday that the young man probably didn’t know what he was doing. They speculated that he lit the ...

CALAIS, Maine — Authorities said a 22-year-old man died after he launched a firework off the top of his head on Saturday night. WCSH reported that 22-year-old Devon Staples and his friends were ...

The mother of Devon Staples, the 22 year-old former Disney performer who died on July 4 after attempting to launch a firework off his head, is advocating for stricter controls on explosives saying the ...

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CALAIS, Maine-- Kathleen Staples says she wishes she could've been there to protect her 22-year-old son, Devon, on the night of the Fourth of July, CBS Boston reports. Devon Staples had been drinking ...