Patrick Grant - he's the very senior citizen who was viciously beaten down and robbed at his Fern Lane home in December of 2015. His neighbor Chester Noralez was charged for dangerous harm and burglary.
Well we have some sad news: he died yesterday. According to his family, he was not feeling well and was hospitalized on Monday. After several tests, the doctors found that his kidneys were failing. Relatives say he had no known kidney ailment. Patrick Grant was 95 year old.
After the 2015 incident we had been following Grant's progress and recovery. And 7news handed him a brand new weed whacker to replace the one that had been stolen. Here's how he reacted then, in January of 2016.
FILE: January 8, 2016
Patrick Grant - Beat Down Victim
"Now I can keep my yard down the way it should be because back in this area there are lizards, there are snakes and everything. So once you got it like there, you're in danger or one of these insects, but with that I'll be free. I'll be most wonderful."
Emanuel Pech
"Is it difficult?"
Patrick Grant - Beat Down Victim
"Well, in a way because I'm handicapped it's a little difficult but never the less. I've been doing it for the past 3 years. Years went by, I used to do it 3 years on the weekend. Today and the last couple of week ago it took me 3 days to do this."
Up until the time of his death, Grant continued to cut his yard religiously, and his son in law had just bought him a new weed whacker because he'd worn out the old one.
Despite the ghastly attack, his family says that Grant lived a long and happy life doing what he liked, being by himself and cutting his yard.
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