• A 6-year-old boy in Texas died weeks after he and his father have been struck by lightning on their driveway.
• Grayson Boggs was holding his father’s hand when the incident occurred, per a GoFundMe web page.
• His father, 34-year-old Matthew Boggs, was killed immediately by the lightning strike.

A 6-year-old boy in Valley Mills, Texas, died weeks after he and his father have been struck by lightning whereas they have been strolling down their driveway.

Grayson Boggs, his brother Elijah Boggs, and their father Matthew Boggs had simply gotten off a bus on Could 15 when the incident occurred, per a GoFundMe web page arrange by their relations.

Grayson and his father have been holding arms “when lightning got here out of the sky with out warning, and entered Matthew’s physique and traveled to Grayson,” per the GoFundMe web page.

Elijah, 11, informed native information station KWTX on Could 17 that he thought the 2 of them “have been simply joking” once they fell to the bottom.

“I used to be actually scared. I rolled Grayson over and he was type of smiling somewhat bit. I assumed they have been simply joking, however once I rolled my dad over, the center of his head was bleeding and his face was already purple,” Elijah stated.

Matthew, 34, was killed immediately, per his obituary, whereas his son was rushed to the Youngsters’s Hospital in Temple, Texas, per the GoFundMe web page.

Matthew’s mom, Angela Boggs, informed KWTX on Could 17 that Matthew and Grayson shared a candy change of their ultimate moments collectively.

“He simply received performed telling Grayson — he stated, ‘I like you buddy.’ That is when the lightning got here down,” Angela stated.

Grayson skilled harm to his frontal lobe and his optic nerve. He succumbed to his accidents a couple of month after the incident.

“Grayson went to be with our Lord and his father at 5:05 am as we speak. Please pray for the household presently. Fly excessive, candy boy. #graysonstrong,” Stephanie Burris, a relative of the household, wrote in an replace posted to the GoFundMe web page on June 16.

Burris didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Insider despatched outdoors common enterprise hours.

As of June 19, the GoFundMe arrange for Grayson Boggs continues to be lively. It has raised $93,352 out of its $100,000 purpose.

A median of 28 individuals die every year within the US from lightning strikes, per information from the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, or CDC. The states of Florida, Texas, Colorado, North Carolina, and Alabama have probably the most lightning-related deaths.

Based on the Nationwide Climate Service, no outside area is secure throughout a thunderstorm. The group recommends that folks search shelter in a secure constructing or a hard-topped metallic automobile as quickly as they hear thunder.

It additionally advises those that are caught outdoors throughout a thunderstorm to keep away from open areas, tall bushes, towers, and utility poles since lightning tends to strike taller objects.

For individuals who are caught outdoors in giant teams, the Nationwide Climate Service recommends everybody unfold out. Though this will increase the prospect that somebody would possibly get struck, it tends to forestall a number of casualties.