CHAPIN, S.C. – A South Carolina student who collapsed at school last month died from heart complications induced by too much caffeine, the Richland County coroner announced Monday.

Spring Hill High School student Davis Cripe died of a “caffeine-induced cardiac event causing a probable arrhythmia,” coroner Gary Watts said.

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Watts attended a press conference with Cripe’s father Monday to discuss the case and said Davis Cripe had no pre-existing or undiagnosed heart problems and wasn’t addicted to caffeinated beverages, according to The State.

On April, 26, Davis bought a McDonald’s latte around 12:30 p.m., and drank a large Diet Mountain Dew “a short time after that,” Watts said.

Sometime after the Mountain Dew he consumed an unidentified energy drink, and collapsed in class shortly before 2:28 p.m., Watts said.

Cripe’s father, Sean Cripe, begged parents to watch what their children are drinking, and to cut out energy drinks.

“It wasn’t a car crash that took his life,” Cripe said. “Instead, it was an energy drink.”

“I stand before you as a brokenhearted father and hope that something good can come from this,” Cripe said, according to WLTX. “Parents, please, talk to your kids about the dangers of these energy drinks. And teenagers and students, please stop buying them. There’s no reason to consume them they can be very dangerous.”

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Cripe and Watts pointed out that the student was an advocate against drugs and alcohol.

“(Cripe) was totally against drugs, he was totally against alcohol,” Watts said. “He didn’t do any of that.”

“Davis, like so many other kids and so many other people out there today, was doing something (he) thought was totally harmless, and that was ingesting lots of caffeine,” Watts said. “We lost Davis from a totally legal substance.”

Richland County deputy chief medical examiner Amy Durso told The State it was the amount of caffeine that Cripe ingested in a short time frame that proved to be deadly.

“A cup of coffee, a can of soda isn’t going to cause this thing,” she said. “It’s the amount and also the time frame in which these caffeinated beverages are consumed that can put you at risk.”

And Watts said tolerances vary by individual.

“This is what’s dangerous about this,” he said. “You can have five people line up and all of them do the exact same thing with him that day, drink more, and it may not have any type of effect on them at all. It’s not something that just because you drink one drink or three drinks is necessarily going to have this effect …”

South Carolina Coroner’s Association President Dennis Fowler told The State he thinks the caffeine-induced death is a first for the state.

“That’s the only one I’ve heard of,” he said. “We haven’t dealt with it.”