Boy accidentally strangles himself with dog leash
A Kentucky teenager known as a "jokester" was strangled by a dog leash he put around his neck while playing with friends, reported Huffington Post.
It was just hours after finishing his freshman year in high school.
Tony Conley, 16, died near his home in Estill County in eastern Kentucky on Friday when he apparently jumped off an outdoor deck staircase and the dog lead tightened around his neck, county Coroner Tony Murphy said Monday.
"It was just so tight that it cut his air and his blood flow off to his head," the coroner said in a phone interview.
Friends tried but were unable to cut the metal cable, and Conley was pronounced dead at the scene, he said.
“He was a good kid," said his football coach, Mike Jones. "He was kind of goofy at times, just a jokester. Looks like maybe he just started to jump over the rail back down to the ground," Murphy said.
"Somehow the cable got hung on the inside of the post on the top, which caused it to cinch down tight on his neck.
"An autopsy showed that he died of strangulation,” he said.