NEW YORK -- A Long Island man died this week in a freak fishing accident that left him brain dead.
Jaime Chicas, 21, of Roosevelt, was fishing at Jones Beach on Friday when his 3-ounce lead sinker came out of the water and hit him in the face and then lodged in his brain.
Chicas had been fishing with two other men when the incident occurred.
After looking at X-rays, doctors at Nassau University Medical Center, where Chicas was taken, saw that the sinker of Chicas' fishing pole had just missed his right eye and entered his head at the bridge in his nose. The momentum of the lead weight continued across the middle of his brain into the back left side of his head, where it stopped, Newsday quotes neurologist Imran Wahedna as saying.
"There was so much force that it kept going and it lodged through the back of his head," Wahedna said of the lead sinker. "The trauma was simply too severe."
Chicas is also survived by his parents, Jose and Feliciana Chicas; his wife, Fatima, and his 1-year-old daughter, who live in El Salvador; and his brother, Julio Chicas, of Hempstead, the newspaper said.
Chicas' family is trying to raise funds to send his body back to El Salvador
Jaime Chicas, 21, of Roosevelt, was fishing at Jones Beach on Friday when his 3-ounce lead sinker came out of the water and hit him in the face and then lodged in his brain.
Chicas had been fishing with two other men when the incident occurred.
After looking at X-rays, doctors at Nassau University Medical Center, where Chicas was taken, saw that the sinker of Chicas' fishing pole had just missed his right eye and entered his head at the bridge in his nose. The momentum of the lead weight continued across the middle of his brain into the back left side of his head, where it stopped, Newsday quotes neurologist Imran Wahedna as saying.
"There was so much force that it kept going and it lodged through the back of his head," Wahedna said of the lead sinker. "The trauma was simply too severe."
Chicas is also survived by his parents, Jose and Feliciana Chicas; his wife, Fatima, and his 1-year-old daughter, who live in El Salvador; and his brother, Julio Chicas, of Hempstead, the newspaper said.
Chicas' family is trying to raise funds to send his body back to El Salvador
