{"id":13145,"date":"2024-07-09T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=13145"},"modified":"2024-07-09T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T12:59:00","slug":"son-of-man-who-died-after-placing-lit-firework-on-his-head-speaks-out-after-watching-it-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=13145","title":{"rendered":"Son of man who died after placing lit firework on his head speaks out after watching it happen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Allen Ray McGrew’s family have hit back at online trolls<\/h2>\n

The son of a man who died in a tragic Fourth of July accident after placing a lit firework on his head has spoken out.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Allen Ray McGrew, 41, was excited and ready to celebrate Independence Day in style before his death.<\/p>\n

According to his wife, Paige McGrew,\u00a0he loved the holiday<\/a>\u00a0and was always excited for this time of the year.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cAllen loved this holiday. He was a patriot, he was proud of his son and he was excited to have a new daughter-in-law. He was living his best life last night.”<\/p>\n

She added that Allen ‘didn’t drink regularly’, and the party was to be his last blow-out before staying off the booze for a while.<\/p>\n

In addition to the normal buzz around the holiday, he was also happy to be celebrating his son Hunter\u2019s engagement, ready to welcome his daughter-in-law into the family.<\/p>\n

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\"Allen<\/div>\n

Allen was excited for 4th of July celebrations before his death.(Facebook\/Allen McGrew)<\/cite><\/div>\n

However, he made a fateful error. Dorchester County Sheriff’s department was called to an address in Cottonwood Drive, Summerville in South Carolina, after the 41-year-old set a firework off on his top hat at 10.30pm.<\/p>\n

While wearing a fitting Uncle Sam outfit for the celebration, Paige thought her husband was just ‘showboating’ with the firework before putting it into the ground, only realizing\u00a0he had actually lit the firework<\/a>\u00a0before it erupted on his head.<\/p>\n

After it exploded, Allen then collapsed, according to Dorchester County Sheriff’s department, before he was pronounced dead at the scene at 11.10pm.<\/p>\n

His son Hunter has since\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0the New York Post: “We\u2019re traumatized.”<\/p>\n

A video showing Allen dancing in his costume hours before his death has also been circulating on\u00a0social media<\/a>\u00a0and has resulted in stern criticism from people online.<\/p>\n

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\"Allen's<\/div>\n

Allen’s son hunter condemned online comments that suggested his father was a drunk fool (Paige McGrew)<\/cite><\/div>\n

The family has since said any portrayal of Allen as a \u2018drunken fool\u2019 couldn\u2019t be further from the truth.<\/p>\n

Paige also spoke about\u00a0Allen\u2019s final moments and his kind words to his family before his death.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cJust before the incident happened, he hugged me and his son and said, \u2018You are my rock, and you are my heart,’\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n

\u201cMe being his rock and his son being his heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a genuine, good person and he loved life,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Allen Ray McGrew’s family have hit back at online trolls The son of a man…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":117,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}