how random is that? wow...sorry to hear about that happening to him. I found this over at ol' Wikipedia:
"On June 4 2007, a Komodo dragon attacked an eight year old boy on Komodo Island. He later died of massive bleeding from his wounds. It was the first recorded deadly attack in 33 years."
Makes this one the second one I guess. That's the way I'd want to go out though, and the way you talk about him he's probably the same way....one of the bad a$$ reports that everyone is like, "that's so crazy! He went out fighting against a dragon!"
Of course, I'm too much of a pu&&y to go over to those places where they exist. I'm sure everyone here wishes you and his family well.