When the world started mourning the death of talented male model Charles Devoe on Friday, most didn’t know the cause of the his death. The New York Daily News has reported that Devoe had been in a coma for almost a month after a surfing accident at the Rockaways on Nov. 12.
DeVoe was pulled underwater, where his ankle tether got wrapped around a wooden pole. He was trapped for a few minutes before Fire Department divers were able to cut him loose.
DeVoe was taken to Columbia University Medical Center, where he and his parents David and Laura DeVoe spent most of the last month. The superintendent of DeVoe’s apartment building in Queens, NY told the Daily News that his condition had been improving until very recently.
DeVoe’s parent’s released this statement to The Huffington Post yesterday:
After graduation from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2004, he moved to NY and became a model. From a very young age he showed his interest and aptitude for adventurous sports — snow boarding, trick bicycling and most recently surf boarding. He will be missed greatly by his parents, extended family and his many friends.
DeVoe’s career took him from all-American Abercrombie and Fitch and Anne Klein to the edginess of Vogue Nippon and V Magazine. He was 28 years old.
R.I.P. =(