By The Associated Press
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Police have released the identity of a man who was critically injured in a fireworks accident in Morgantown.
Police Chief Ed Preston told The Dominion Post on Monday that 24-year-old Paul Spitznogle remained in critical condition following multiple surgeries at Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown.
Preston said Spitznogle is from Davis and is not a WVU student.
The police chief said Spitznogle had ignited fireworks in a mortar tube and held it over his head to launch it. Thinking that the launch had occurred, he pulled the tube down near his chest when it exploded Saturday.