A Texas boy passed away from the same lightning bolt that killed his father a month ago.
Around 5 p.m. on May 15, Matthew Boggs and his two sons were walking home after being dropped off at a school bus stop. Boggs was holding hands with his 6-year-old son, while the 11-year-old son walked on the other side of the driveway by the home in Bosque County.
Matthew’s mother Angela told KWTX-TV in May, “He just got done telling Grayson — he said, ‘I love you buddy.’ That’s when the lightning came down.”
A lightning bolt struck the father, and the electricity flowed through his hands to his 6-year-old son. The elder son, Elijah, was nearby when his father and brother were struck by lightning.
The force of the lightning strike knocked the shoes off the father and son, according to Fox Weather. They landed face down on the pavement.
Family members quickly rolled the 34-year-old father over, but his face had already turned blue. Life-saving measures were given to Matthew and Grayson.
Matthew was pronounced dead.
Grayson was found “unresponsive, but breathing.” He was rushed to the Baylor Scott & White McLane Children’s Medical Center in Temple, Texas. He was put on a ventilator.
KCEN-TV reported, “He started breathing on his own, but was then put on a feeding tube, according to family posts on Facebook.”
Grayson was placed in palliative care on June 14, according to a GoFundMe page.
Grayson Boggs died at 5:05 a.m. on June 16, a month after his father passed away.
“Please pray for the family at this time. Fly high, sweet boy,” a message read on the crowdfunding site.
At the time of publication, the GoFundMe raised more than $90,000 for the Boggs family in the wake of the tragedy of losing the young boy.
Including the father and son, there have been seven Americans killed by lightning in 2023, according to the National Lightning Safety Council. There were reportedly 19 deaths from lightning strikes in 2022.
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