A 6-year-old Texas boy has been lying 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 toddler, named Jeremy, suffered brain swelling and multiple skull fractures after Daniel Logan attacked him with a bat around 5 a.m. on Sept. 11 in Georgetown, TX, according to police and local reports.
Logan was arrested and charged with injury to a child and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon against a family member – both first-degree felonies – after he allegedly hit his own mother with a bat as well, the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office said.
Jeremy was seen lying in a hospital bed after a man broke into his home and knocked him unconscious with a baseball bat. Gofundme
His wife was the one who called 911 after her mother-in-law came out of the boy’s home dripping blood and yelling “that Daniel killed everyone inside,” according to an arrest affidavit obtained by the Austin American-Statesman.
She told a detective who arrived at the house next door on Rock Mill Loop that she was awakened by a loud bang and realized her husband was not inside their home, but their back door was open, local outlets reported.
She walked out the back door and saw a hole in the picket fence that divides her and her husband’s property from Jeremy’s family property and then noticed the family’s glass door on their back porch was broken, according to the affidavit.
Jeremy suffered brain swelling and a fractured skull after Daniel Logan attacked him with a bat. Gofundme
The alleged assailant’s wife then heard her mother-in-law and Jeremy’s mother screaming from inside the neighbor’s 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 go to a neighbor’s house armed with a baseball bat.
Daniel Logan is charged with wounding the child, along with aggravated assault in connection with assaulting his own mother. Williamson County Sheriff
She saw him go upstairs and followed him to the second floor — where she found little Jeremy “prone on the floor of the upstairs bedroom,” authorities said.
Her son had gone back downstairs and she followed him again — pleading with him to stop when she turned around and hit him in the face with the bat, according to arrest documents.
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The Williamson County Sheriff’s Office has not released a motive for the horrific attack on the child, and the boy’s father told the Austin American-Statesman that he could not comment on whether he knew his son’s assailant because there is an open investigation into the violence.
The sheriff’s office instead 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 dad Arthur posted an update about his son to the fundraising page earlier this week.
“Jeremy remains in critical care, but he continues to show movement in all his limbs and is responsive,” she wrote alongside a photo of the boy’s past.
He said that his son was very active before he was beaten.
“He speaks fluent Chinese and is learning Chinese characters, playing the piano and being a role model, a hero to his younger brother,” Arthur said. “He’s great.”
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