© CBSInvestigators said Romeo Briscoe was killed when lightning hit his fishing pole and then traveled through his body.
The victim was one of four friends fishing off a jetty at Seaside Park in Bridgeport as the stormy weather rolled in.
Investigators said Romeo Briscoe was killed when lightning hit his fishing pole and then traveled through his body. The blast was so powerful, it shredded his clothes and blew up his cell phone.
"This is part of the cell phone that were recovered here where the victim was struck by lightning," said Sgt. Giselle Doszpoj of Bridgeport P.D. "They tried to resuscitate him. He didn't come back. He's gone."
Briscoe's three friends suffered non-life threatening injuries.
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