Two weeks after an unwarranted hatchet strike almost beheaded a guy resting with his spouse at a Tucson, Arizona, bus quit, the suspect has actually been billed with first-degree murder.
Daniel Michael, 25, was at first billed with intensified attack with a harmful tool and intensified attack with significant injury previously this month after the April 5 strike that left Jacob Couch, 32, on life assistance.
On Friday, Couch passed away of his injuries, and Michael currently deals with first-degree murder costs, the Tucson Police Department verified in a news releaseSaturday
“He’s got the biggest heart that I believe I’ve ever met,” Couch’s more youthful sibling, Luke Couch, informed Fox News Digital previously this month. “And I really do mean that. He was just a caring person. He loved his family. He was really big about his family.”
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Daniel Michael, right, was billed with Jacob Couch’s murder. (Go Fund Me/Pima County)
Couch and his spouse, Kristen, remained in California grieving the loss of their stillborn kid, and they chose to take a trip throughout the nation back to their home town of Arab, Alabama, by bus.
On their method home, their bus dropped in Tucson, Luke informedFox News Digital
“Somebody told them to get up, and my brother told him to mind his own business. You know, they weren’t doing anything, weren’t causing any trouble,” he claimed. “And then Kristen could tell that the guy was really agitated, and so she told him they were getting up, and they were going to leave.”
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A more youthful Jacob Couch grins in a household picture supplied to Fox News Digital. (Luke Couch/ Fox News Digital)
When Couch curved to collect his points, “the man came up behind him and swung a hatchet. And witnesses said that he lifted the ax up over his head and swung it,” he claimed.
Michael ran away after the claimed strike, which occurred around 10 a.m. He was detained 3 days later on at his Tucson home.
His attorney, in the first bond hearing, claimed protection could not be dismissed, yet Luke Couch stopped at that concept, informing Fox News Digital there was “no evidence” to sustain that.
Jacob and Luke Couch as children in a household picture supplied to Fox News Digital. (Luke Couch/ Fox News Digital)
“And they said that he was going to be trying to grasp straws, grasp anything. I mean, my brother was attacked from behind while he was bent over. That is not self-defense,” Luke worried.
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“I want to make sure this man never does this again and no other family has to go through what my family has gone through,” he included. “To see my brother lying in a hospital bed and unable to move, unable to do anything, it hurts so bad to know that I wasn’t able to be there to protect him because he would have done it for me in a heartbeat. We as a family want swift justice.”
Couch was the papa of a 15-year-old woman.
