WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - An eight-year-old was nearly killed by a phone charger while lying in bed, but he says it was his quick thinking that kept him alive.

“It was just scary,” said Lorenzo Lopez. “I almost thought I was going to die.”

Lorenzo Lopez is your ordinary eight year old. He likes sports, video games, and his favorite color is blue. But the other night was anything but ordinary.

“It was chaos, but I do remember some of it,” Lopez said.

Lopez was sleeping with a phone plugged into a charger nearby. The charger was plugged into an extension cord, and the charger cord was slightly unplugged.

“Lorenzo rolled over in his sleep and his chain necklace just happened to fall in between where the gap was on the extension cord and the charger, which is what shocked him,” explained Kou

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