GEORGETOWN, Texas — A 6-year-old boy who was attacked in his Georgetown home on Sept. 11 has died, according to a post from his father on the family’s GoFundMe page.
The boy, Jeremy, had been fighting for his life in the hospital since the attack.
The attack happened around 5 a.m., when Williamson County deputies responded to a disturbance on Rock Mill Loop in Georgetown. An affidavit obtained by KVUE detailed that 39-year-old Daniel Logan struck his mother with a baseball bat before forcing his way into his neighbor's home and assaulting Jeremy with the bat as well.
"I saw my 6-year-old laying in a pool of blood," Jeremy's father, Arturo, told KVUE in September. "He was hit in the back of his head, shattered the back of his skull into pieces."
Logan faces two first-degree felony charges, injury to a child and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon against a family member. In an update on Wednesday, the Williamson County Sheriff's Office said in a statement that "upon receipt of Travis County Medical Examiner's Office's findings, if warranted, law enforcement and the District Attorney's Office will present the case to a grand jury for the charges to be enhanced to capital murder."
"Our full support will continue to be provided to the District Attorney's Office in its efforts to indict and prosecute the case," the WCSO statement concluded.
On Tuesday, Arturo said Jeremy had a neural storm on Monday night “that we hadn’t seen in five weeks, which was something new.”
“It was the worst storm we had seen and it came out of nowhere,” he said. “It was almost six hours of hell on earth – I can only imagine the torture he went through.”
He said Jeremy’s heart stopped on Tuesday morning.
“He fought for over 60 days and was improving, but at the end, the odds seemed against him and he gave up the ghost,” he said.
His father thanked the community for supporting Jeremy and his family through this tough time.
“I was there when he took his first breath and saw him take his last – no parent should see their children buried before them,” he said.