The explosion in a garage killed Christopher Pekny and injured his brother on Sunday, officials said. Another brother described what happened as “the freakiest of freak accidents.”
A 28-year-old father-to-be in Sullivan County was killed on Sunday after a device designed for a gender reveal exploded, state police said. New York State.
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On Sunday just before noon, New York State Police in Sullivan County responded to a residence on the Lt. JG Brender Highway in the town of Liberty for a report of an explosion.
An investigation revealed that 28-year-old Christopher Pekny from the town of Liberty was building a device to be used at a child gender reveal party. The device exploded resulting in the death of Christopher Pekny and injuring his brother, 27-year-old Michael Pekny, also of Liberty.
Michael was transported to Garnet Medical Center in Middletown, according to New York State Police from the Liberty barracks. His condition hasn t been released
LIBERTY, N.Y. — An expectant father was killed when a device he was building for a gender reveal party exploded, police in New York said Monday. Christopher Pekny, 28, was assembling a device for his child’s gender reveal party in the Catskills town of Liberty when it exploded just before