A 6-year-old Texas boy who was attacked by an grownup neighbor in September died on Tuesday after preventing to remain alive for weeks, his father mentioned.
In a grim replace on GoFundMe, Arturo Diaz, the daddy of Jeremy Diaz, mentioned he was unable to resuscitate his son after he discovered him pale, with no heartbeat and no movement in his eyes.
“He fought for over 60 days and was bettering, however on the finish, the percentages appeared in opposition to him and he gave up the ghost,” the daddy mentioned.
In accordance to a statement by the Williamson County Sheriff’s Workplace in Texas, Jeremy was allegedly attacked by his neighbor, Daniel Logan, 39, on Sept. 11 after Logan broke into the house armed with a baseball bat.
Logan’s mom adopted her son into Jeremy’s house to beg him to cease, however he struck her as a substitute, the Austin American-Statesman reported, citing an arrest affidavit.
Logan’s spouse informed police she referred to as 911 when she noticed her mother-in-law come again house coated in blood and “frantically screamed that Daniel was killing everybody inside.”
Logan was arrested quickly after on costs of harm to a toddler and aggravated assault with a lethal weapon in opposition to a member of the family, police mentioned.
Jeremy was taken to the hospital in vital situation following the assault and remained there ever since.
A neighborhood member initially launched the GoFundMe within the wake of the assault to assist Jeremy’s mother and father cowl medical payments and set up assets to help the household.
On the GoFundMe, Jeremy’s mother and father made frequent updates about his situation and shared considerate phrases about their son as he fought to remain alive.
In line with courtroom information reviewed by JS, Logan was discovered incompetent to face trial in October and is about to return to courtroom for a psychological well being analysis on Nov. 28.
Marc Chavez, Logan’s lawyer, told USA Today in October that his shopper’s case concerned psychological sickness.
“Whereas the allegations sound troubling, we ask everybody to order judgment till all of the details come to gentle particularly whereas we examine points associated to critical psychological sickness,” Chavez mentioned.
On Saturday, Jeremy’s father mentioned his son’s important indicators had improved. The hospital employees deliberate to take him off the ventilator on Wednesday, however Jeremy suffered a “neural storm” Monday evening.
According to FlintRehab, a supplier of restorative neurorehabilitation applied sciences, neurostorming is prone to happen after a traumatic mind harm that may end up in an elevated coronary heart fee, blood stress, or physique temperature regulation.
“It was the worst storm we had seen and it got here out of no the place. It was virtually 6 hours of hell on earth ― I can solely think about the torture he went by means of,” Diaz wrote on the GoFundMe web page.
Diaz shared his final candy second with Jeremy earlier than the assault, saying he was studying to him earlier than mattress.
“After we had been accomplished studying, the very last thing he mentioned was, ‘papa, watch me cowl myself,’” Jeremy’s father wrote. “Right now I coated his face for the final time. I used to be there when he took his first [breath] and noticed him take his final ― no dad or mum ought to see their kids buried earlier than them.”
