6-year-old dies after lightning strikes dad while the two held hands, Texas family says

A 6-year-old boy died one month after he and his father were struck by lightning in Texas, his family said.

While picking up his son Grayson from a bus on May 15 in Valley Mills, Matthew Boggs, 34, was struck by lightning, a family member wrote on a GoFundMe page.

The bolt then traveled through Grayson’s body, since the pair were holding hands, the family member said.

“He just got done telling Grayson—he said, ‘I love you buddy.’ That’s when the lightning came down,” Boggs’ mother told KWTX.

Deputies and EMS personnel responded to the scene and found both individuals unresponsive, according to a police news release.

Boggs was pronounced dead at the scene, while Grayson, though motionless, was still breathing, police said.

He was taken to a hospital for emergency treatment, police said.

It was determined that he had a brain injury caused by oxygen deprivation, according to KXXV. Though he was in a coma, he showed some signs of improvement days after the incident.

But about one month after the lightning strike, Grayson died, his mother, Kayla Boggs, announced on Facebook on June 16.

“Words can’t describe this,” Grayson’s aunt wrote on Facebook.

“You fought so hard through it all,” she said. “Now you’ll be able to rest my handsome funny little baby nephew.”

Injuries and deaths caused by lightning strikes are extremely rare — the odds of being struck are less than 1 in a million — but they are more likely to occur in southern states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

About 90% of people struck by lightning survive, according to the CDC.

Valley Mills is about 100 miles southwest of Dallas.

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