According to the documents received by the NBC 10 Boston investigators, a violent encounter between a father and son had last month before removing several children from a Medve, Massachusetts.
As we told on 23 February, social activists removed seven children from a house on Halliston Street between the ages of 3 and 16 and the police spent day to collect evidence.
Medve Police Chief William Kingsbury told reporters that he could not share specific details about the situation that day while it remained under investigation.
However, the court recorded that the NBC10 investigators reviewed the light on an atmosphere in an atmosphere in the leading days to remove children.
According to a report by the Medve Police, the authorities responded to the house on the night of 16 February and found a bloody encounter between 55 -year -old Thomas Logan and his 27 -year -old son, Matthew Logan.
Eyewitnesses told the police that Matthew Logan was watching television at home with his girlfriend and 29 -year -old brother, when his father entered the room with a metal flashlight and tried to attack his son.
Matthew Logan fought his father, Thomas Logan allegedly returned from the kitchen holding two knives.
Eyewitnesses said that the police Matthew Logan wrestled a knife away from his father and then started punching him again and again. At one point, Thomas Logan’s wife tried to intervene and break the battle, but was also killed on the face during the conflict according to the report.
The police reached the chaotic scene, what was transpiresing inside the house after the flander 911 call kept by Matthew Logan’s girlfriend, who was catching the couple’s young child, when the officers arrived at the house.
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An official reported to score a high courtyard and arrest Matthew Logan. Another officer kicked a door and found that Thomas Logan was bleeding largely from the head.
Eyewitnesses told the police that Matthew Logan had a tattoo of a tattoo on his deceased brother’s birthday, which provoked anger with Thomas Logan.
In a video posted on Facebook a day after the verdict, Matthew Logan confirmed the details and described the fight with his father.
Matthew Logan said in the video, “My father tried to attack my woman and my child.” “He tried to attack me with a flashlight and I just took (explain) out of it and he was immediately bleeding.”
According to the report, 12 people live at home on Halliston Street and many children were sleeping in their rooms when violent struggle erupted.
The father and son were charged with an attack with a dangerous weapon and allegations of battery hooliganism. According to the report, Matthew Logan wore two big gold rings during the fight, which contributed to his father’s injuries.
Matthew Logan was introduced on 20 February and released on bail of $ 540 with an order not to contact his parents. Thomas Logan was treated at the hospital after the fight and will be debated on 28 March.
A source familiar with the case told NBC10 that the removal of children was not directly related to the fight on 16 February, but instead it came up during an investigation after that incident.
On 26 February, Julie Logan sought a preventive order against his son Matthew. In her affidavit, the mother wrote that her son was struggling with many mental health disorders and not taking her prescribed medicine.
Julie Logan also said that his son had a history of drugs and alcohol abuse, and his mental state had declined in recent weeks. Mother said that she is afraid of her safety.
“My son recently left my husband unconscious in a pool of blood,” Julie Logan wrote. “Given their diagnosis and its severity, there is not a way to predict their unstable behavior.”
The NBC10 Parents can provide about the ongoing law enforcement checks, to reach the parents, Thomas and Julie, to ask about the change or any perspective. He has not responded to the messages left on the phone number listed in police reports.
On reaching the phone, Matthew Logan refused to comment.
In his summary of the fight on 16 February, police officials indicated that they were familiar with the family and on several occasions on several occasions for medical emergency situations, noise complaints and an attack on a family member.
According to a call for home service on Halliston Street, the police have gone home more than a dozen times as the family bought it in 2016.
In a February 2019 report, Thomas Logan called the police and said “he saw just five lights going to his house, but did not hear any voice.” An official said the answer to the House said that Logan showed him a video taken on his cellphone.
In another report from May 2020, a collar told the police that Thomas Logan stood outside his house shouting obscenity at people. Records show that Logan also called the police to report to a neighbor in June 2022, who took a picture of his waste sitting outside the curb.
On Monday, Chief Kingsbury told NBC10 that the situation was under investigation and there was no new details that he could share with the public.
A DCF spokesperson said the agency could not comment due to state and federal privacy requirements.