Boy, 6, dies two months after neighbor beat him with a baseball bat | US News

A six-year-old boy who was beaten with a baseball bat by a neighbor who broke into his home has died more than two months after the attack.

Jeremy Tang Diaz died on Tuesday morning in a tragic turn as his family was preparing to extubate him from his ventilator because he showed signs of improvement in his health.

But the night before the planned extubation, Jeremy began having a neural storm that ‘was almost 6 hours of hell on earth’, his father Arturo Diaz wrote in an update to his GoFundMe page.

‘Early this morning I was checking him and noticed a pale face and eyes with no motion. Then his heart stopped,’ wrote Diaz.

‘They tried to resuscitate him, but it was not successful.

‘He fought for over 60 days and was improving, but at the end, the odds seemed against him and he gave up the ghost.’

Jeremy fought to recover from severe brain injuries after his neighbor Daniel Logan, 39, allegedly broke into the Diaz family’s home in Georgetown, Texas, and struck the boy in his bedroom. Jeremy suffered brain swelling, skull fractures and was left unconscious from the September 11.

The Williamson County Sheriff’s Office called the attack a ‘random act’ and Sheriff Mike Gleason stated that Logan may have been ‘experiencing a mental health crisis’.

Logan was charged with felony aggravated assault and intentionally inflicting serious bodily injury to a child. He was considered incompetent to stand trial on October 5, and has a mental health hearing set for November 28, according to records obtained by the Austin American-Statesman.

Diaz shared heartbreaking details from ‘the last night before we were plunged into this nightmare’.

‘Jeremy told me that he had brushed his teeth and was ready for reading and bed. He took me by the hand and led me to his room. When we were done reading, the last thing he said was, “papa, watch me cover myself,”‘ he wrote in the update.

‘Today I covered his face for the last time.

‘I was there when he took his first breathe and saw him take his last – no parent should see their children buried before them.’

Jeremy’s GoFundMe page had raised more than $318,000 toward the fight for his rehab and life.

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