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A six-year-old boy from Texas died after being struck by lightning while walking home from school with his father, who had previously been killed by the same lightning bolt.
Grayson Boggs’ death on Friday comes weeks after his father, 34-year-old Matthew Boggs, was killed by the lightning bolt.
The lightning bolt struck around 5 p.m. on May 15 after a bus in the town of Valley Mills dropped Grayson and his brother Elijah, 11, off school.
Mr. Boggs and his sons were walking home together and making their way to their driveway when Elijah turned left and Grayson and his father, holding hands, turned right.
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Grayson Boggs, 6, died after lightning struck him as he was walking home from school with his father. (GoFundMe)
Lightning then struck Mr. Boggs’ body and traveled to Grayson as they held hands.
The two came out of their shoes due to the force of the lightning strike and landed face down in the driveway, according to Fox Weather.
Mr. Boggs was already blue when relatives turned his body. They began CPR on Grayson while a neighbor began life-saving measures against his father, but Mr. Boggs died.
Grayson has been fighting for his life for four weeks at Baylor Scott & White McLane Children’s Medical Center in Temple, Texas. He was on a ventilator and had epileptic seizures. Doctors informed the family that Grayson’s condition would not improve and he was taken off his ventilator on Tuesday.
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The lightning bolt struck around 5 p.m. on May 15 after a bus in the town of Valley Mills dropped Grayson and his brother Elijah, 11, off school. (iStock)
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The boy died at 5:05 p.m. Friday, according to a GoFundMe page created by a cousin.
The fundraiser, which was started to help with funeral costs, raised more than $87,000 on Sunday morning.
