The demise of Grayson Boggs marked the fifth fatality caused by lightning in the United States this year, with Texas accounting for two of those tragic incidents.
Matthew Boggs, the father of the six-year-old, tragically became the first lightning fatality in the state of Texas for the year.
From New York Post:
It was just after 5 p.m. May 15 in the small Central Texas town of Valley Mills when the bus arrived to drop off Grayson from kindergarten and his 11-year-old brother Elijah.
As the three walked up their heart-shaped driveway, Elijah went to the left while his father and Grayson went to the right.
Grayson was holding his father’s hand when lightning struck.
“He just got done telling Grayson, ‘I love you, buddy,’ and that’s when the lightning hit,” said Angeli Boggs, Grayson’s grandmother.
The force of the strike knocked the shoes off the both of them as they landed face down on the pavement.
When family members rolled Grayson’s father over, he was already blue.
They started CPR on Grayson while a neighbor started life-saving measures on his father.
Matthew Boggs didn’t survive.
For the last four weeks, Grayson has been at Baylor Scott & White McLane Children’s Medical Center fighting for his life.
Family members said prayers came in from around the world while he was in a coma.
They said doctors told the family that Grayson’s condition would not improve, and a decision was made to remove him from his ventilator Tuesday.
What a heartbreaking and truly unfathomable story.
This is a tragedy that was completely out of their control and you just can't imagine the grief this family is going through.
