If At First You Don't Succeed

Almost killed in a house fire three months ago, a 7-year-old South Carolina boy is now dead at the hands of a pillow-wielding carjacker:

Greenville County Sheriff's authorities are investigating the death of a 7-year-old boy whose mother said a knife-wielding carjacker locked himself in her car and smothered her son with a pillow.

Devon Epps of Greenville was pronounced dead at Greenville Hospital System's Children's Hospital, Greenville County Deputy Coroner Karie Cain said.

Death almost had him with a fire of undetermined origin, but the boy managed to escape the conflagration. I guess Death just squared his shoulders and got right back on that horse:

Family members tell us back in May the fire started in Devon’s room, destroying everything. “He lost all of his clothes, all of his toys,” says [his great aunt] Diane. Diane says the little boy told her an amazing story of how he survived. “He was trying to grab the door and it was so hot,” she says. “He grabbed at something to open the door and he finally got out and he went in there to wake his momma up.” She says it was a miracle he lived to tell the story, only to have his little life extinguished three months later.

Persistent son-of-a-gun, that Death.

RIP, Devon.