“ CNN
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A Colorado man [Christopher Ward, 34] has died after a bite from a large venomous lizard, called a Gila monster, that he illegally kept as a pet…

Ward’s girlfriend called 911 just before midnight February 12 after she entered the room where the reptiles were kept & found that one of them had “latched onto Ward’s hand,”… Ward immediately started showing symptoms, vomiting several times before he passed out, and his breathing stopped, the report said.”

The Gila monster watched him die