A 6-year-old Texas boy has been unconscious in a hospital bed for more than a week after his 39-year-old neighbor allegedly broke into his home and beat him with a baseball bat.
The boy named Jeremy suffered brain swelling and multiple skull fractures after Daniel Logan attacked him with the bat around 5 a.m. on Sept. 11 in Georgetown, Texas, according to police and a local report.
Logan was arrested and charged with injury to a child and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon on a family member (both first-degree felonies) after he also allegedly hit his own mother with the bat, the Sheriff’s Office said. of Williamson County.
Jeremy lies in a hospital bed after a man broke into the house he was in and knocked him unconscious with a baseball bat. gofundme
His wife was the one who called 911 after her mother-in-law emerged from the boy’s home dripping with blood and screaming “that Daniel was killing everyone inside,” according to the arrest affidavit obtained by the Austin American-Statesman.
She told a detective who arrived at adjacent homes on Rock Mill Loop that she woke up to loud noises and realized her husband was not home, but that the back door was open, the local outlet reported.
She walked out the back door and noticed a hole in the fence dividing her and her husband’s property from Jeremy’s family’s property and then saw that the family’s glass door leading to the backyard had been shattered, according to the affidavit.
Jeremy suffered brain swelling and skull fractures after Daniel Logan attacked him with the bat. gofundme
The alleged attacker’s wife then heard her mother-in-law and Jeremy’s mother screaming from inside the neighbors’ house.
Then Logan’s mother came out covered in blood and screaming for help.
His mother later told a detective from her hospital bed that she saw her son enter the neighbors’ house armed with a baseball bat.
Daniel Logan is charged with injury to the child, along with aggravated assault in connection with attacking his own mother. Williamson County Sheriff
She saw him go up the stairs and followed him to the second floor, where she found little Jeremy “slumped on the floor of an upstairs bedroom,” authorities said.
Her son had gone downstairs and she followed him again, begging him to stop, when he turned around and hit her in the face with the bat, according to the arrest document.
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The Williamson County Sheriff’s Office did not reveal a motive for the horrific attack on the boy, and the boy’s father told the Austin American-Statesman he could not comment on whether he knew his son’s attacker because there is an open investigation into the violence. . .
Instead, the sheriff’s office called the incident a “random act.”
A GoFundMe campaign created for Jeremy and his parents has raised more than $200,000 for his medical care.
Jeremy’s father, Arthur, posted an update about his son on the fundraising page earlier this week.
“Jeremy remains in critical care but continues to show movement in all of his extremities and is responding,” she wrote alongside an earlier photo of the boy.
She said her son was very active before he was hit.
“He spoke fluent Chinese and studied Chinese characters, played the piano and was a role model, a hero to his younger brother,” Arthur said. “He is amazing.”
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