Sadly we lost Justin Bartek on July 7, 2015.He was an outgoing young man who touched the lives of all who knew him.We never want to imagine what it would be like to lose a loved one. But if we did, we would certainly want to make sure we were able to grieve with our families and not worry or think about anything else but the love of our families. Please continue to share and show your support to this beautiful family and the loss of their loved one. 

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 MARION, Ind. (July 5, 2015) -- Two Indiana men died after separate Fourth of July accidents involving fireworks. 
 
 James Drake, 41, Marion, was killed Saturday night after suffering extensive trauma to the face in a fireworks accident. He had been checking on a shell that hadn't gone off when expected. 
 
 It happened around 10:40 p.m. at at a parking lot in the 3200 block of South Washington Street. 
 
 "I think he approached one and it went off and struck him in the face," said Grant County Coroner Chris Butche. 
 
 Drake was rushed to Marion General Hospital and died about an hour later. Butche ruled the cause of death accidental due to blunt force trauma to the face. 
 
 In northern Indiana, the Elkhart County Sheriff's Department said a 44-year-old man died as the result of a fireworks explosion. Jose Magallanes was found dead Sunday morning after neighbors reported hearing a boom. 
 
 Magallanes suffered fatal injuries from the incident. The coroner ruled his death accidental caused by blunt force trauma to the head. 

 Authorities say a Colorado County man has died from injuries he suffered while setting off a firework on his chest.The Colorado County Sheriff's Office say it happened around 1:30am Tuesday at the Dollar Hole off Kurtz Lane. Investigators identified the victim as 30-year-old Justin Bartek, of Columbus.Witnesses told investigators that Bartek lit a big tube-type firework called Medieval Knight off his chest and was injured. He was transported to Columbus Hospital where he died.The sheriff's office is waiting on the medical examiner's office to determine the cause of death.Investigators say right now, the incident appears to be an accident. 

 AND KILLED THE OTHER MAN. POLICE ARE STILL LOOKING FOR THE SHOOTER. NOW TO OUR OTHER BIG STORY. A FATHER KILLED AFTER SETTING OFF A FIREWORK ON HIS CHEST. HELLO AND THANKS FOR JOINING US. I'M DOMINIQUE SACHSE. I'M KEITH GARVIN. BILL IS OFF TONIGHT. THIS FIREWORKS INCIDENT HAPPENED EARLY THIS MORNING JUST OVER AN HOUR WEST OF HOUSTON IN COLUMBUS, WHICH IS IN COLORADO COUNTY. CHANNEL 2'S ROBERT ARNOLD IS LIVE THERE TONIGHT AND SPOKE WITH PEOPLE WHO KNEW THIS DAD. ROBERT? Reporter: LOVING FATHER, GOOD FRIEND. THAT'S HOW FAMILY AND FRIENDS DESCRIBE JUSTIN BARTEK AND SHERIFF'S OFFICIALS SAY WHAT HAPPENED ON THE BANKS OF THE COLORADO RIVER WHAT IS A LIGHTHEARTED MOMENT THAT COST BARTEK HIS LIFE. HE JUST HAD AN INFECTIOUS SPIRIT. WHENEVER YOU MET HIM, HE MET A FRIEND. Reporter: JUSTIN BARTEK IS WELL KNOWN IN THE SMALL TOWN OF COLUMBUS, A VETERAN POSTAL WORKER FULL OF PERSONALITY AND GENEROSITY. HE WAS THE LIGHT OF MANY PEOPLE'S LIVES AND HE WAS THE WORLD TO THE PEOPLE THAT KNEW HIM AND HE WOULD GIVE THE WORLD TO ANYONE THAT ASKED. Reporter: COLORADO COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICIALS SAY IN THE PRE-DAWN HOURS OF TUESDAY, BARTEK AND FRIENDS WERE SHOOTING OFF FIREWORKS AT A POPULAR FISHING SPOT ON THE COLORADO RIVER. SHERIFF'S OFFICIALS SAY BARTEK PUT ONE OF THE FIREWORKS ON HIS CHEST WHEN. WHEN IT WENT OFF HE WAS CRITICALLY INJURED AND LATER DIED. HE WAS HERE YESTERDAY SMILING AND TALKING TO EVERYONE AND SAYING HI AND -- AND THEN TODAY YOU GET THE SAD NEWS THAT HE'S JUST NOT HERE. Reporter: BARTEK LEAVES BEHIND A 3-YEAR-OLD SON AND AND A TRAIL OF PEOPLE WHO HAD GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO THE SMIECIALTION WAVE, AND FRIENDLY BANT -- SMILE, AND WAVE, AND THE FRIENDLY BANTER. YOU DON'T SEE THAT SMILING FACE AND GIVING YOU A NICE. PEP IN YOUR DAY. I WAS DRIVING BY TO GO THE POST OFFICE AND JUST HABIT, IT'S JUST TO GO WAVE AND IT WASN'T HIM. Reporter: SHOARCHES OFFICIALS SAY -- SHERIFF'S OFFICIALS SAY AN AUTOPSY WILL BE PERFORMED. HE GREW UP IN THE KATY AREA AND GRADUATED TO KATY HIGH SCHOOL BEFORE MOVING TO COLUMBUS. HIS PARENTS ARE BACK FROM THE STATE OF COLORADO. THEY WERE TENDING TO BARTEK'S BROTHER WHO WAS IN AN ACCIDENT ON JULY 4th. 
 
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 Colorado County sheriff's officials said a Columbus man died after shooting a firework off his chest. Justin Bartek, 30, died at Columbus Community Hospital on Tuesday. 
 
 "He just had an infectious spirit, whenever you met him you met a friend," said Erica Jackson. 
 
 Bartek is well known in the small town of Columbus. Friends described him as a veteran postal worker full of personality and generosity. 
 
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 "He was the light of many people's lives and the world to the people that knew him, and he would give the world to any that asked," said Jackson. 
 
 Sheriff's officials said Bartek and friends were shooting off fireworks at a popular fishing spot on the Colorado River. Sheriff's officials said Bartek put one the fireworks on his chest. When it went off he was critically injured and died after he was rushed to the hospital by paramedics. 
 
 "He was here yesterday smiling and talking to everyone and saying, 'Hi,'" said Jackson. "And today you get the sad news that he's just not here." 
 
 Bartek leaves behind a 3-year-old son and a trail of people who had gown accustomed to the smile, wave and friendly banter he delivered to everyone along his postal route. 
 
 "You don't see that smiling face coming at you and just waving and just giving you a nice little pep in your day," said Jackson. "I was driving by to go to the post office and I saw a postal truck, and just out of habit is to go wave and it wasn't him." 
 
 Bartek's mother told KPRC 2 her son grew up in Katy and graduated from Katy High School before moving to Columbus. Butter Bartek said she and her husband are on their way back to town from Colorado where they were tending to Bartek's brother, who had been in an accident on the Fourth of July. 
 
 Sheriff's officials said an autopsy will determine exactly how Bartek died.
– Another man is dead after reportedly shooting a firework off his own body, this time in Texas. Postal worker Justin Bartek, 30, was setting off fireworks with friends along the Colorado River in Columbus early yesterday when he put a Medieval Knight, a large, tube-shaped firework, on his chest and set it off, witnesses tell ABC 13. He was rushed to Columbus Community Hospital with critical injuries and later died, reports KPRC. "He just had an infectious spirit, whenever you met him you met a friend," says a woman who set up a GoFundMe account to support Bartek's partner and 3-year-old son. "He was the light of many people's lives and the world to the people that knew him, and he would give the world to any that asked." His death is just the latest involving fireworks in recent days: 22-year-old Devon Staples was killed instantly in Maine after shooting a firework off of his head on July 4. Fox 59 reports James Drake, 41, died in Marion, Indiana, on the same day of blunt force trauma to the face after he went to check on an unexploded shell. "I think he approached one and it went off and struck him in the face," a coroner says. A day later, 44-year-old Jose Magallanes was found dead in northern Indiana after suffering blunt force trauma to the head. His body showed explosion-related injuries from a fireworks accident, police say. The Consumer Product Safety Commission recorded nine fireworks-related deaths between June 20 and July 20 of last year and noted that among those injured, males age 25-44 made up the biggest group.