Hatchet-wielding Arizona man charged with murder after victim dies of injuries

Two weeks after the unappreciated attack of Hatchet nearly decapitating a man sitting with his wife Ua Tucson, ArizonaThe bus stop, the suspect was charged with first -degree murder.

Daniel Michael, 25, was initially charged with an aggravated attack by a deadly weapon and a difficult attack with serious injuries earlier this month after the attack on April 5, at which Jacob Couch, 32, left his life support.

On Friday, Couch died of his injuries and Michael is now confronting first degree murder The accusation, the Tucson Police Directorate confirmed on Saturday in a press release.

“He has the biggest heart that I believe I have ever met,” Couch’s younger brother Luke Couch told Fox News Digital earlier this month. “And I really think. He was just a caring person. He loved his family. He was really big in his family.”

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Couch and his wife Kristen were in California, mourning the loss of their stillborn son and decided to travel all over the country back to their hometown of Arabic, Alabama, by bus.

On the way home, their bus stopped in Tucson, Luke told Fox News Digital.

“Someone told them to get up, and my brother told him he had his own business in mind. You know, they didn’t do anything, they didn’t create any problems,” he said. “And then Kristen could say that the guy was really upset, so she told him they were getting up and they would leave.”

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When Couch bent down to collect his belongings, “the man came behind him and swung his session. The witnesses said he lifted the ax over his head and swung it,” he said.

Michael escaped after the alleged attack, which happened around 10 o’clock has been arrested Three days later in his house Tucson.

His lawyer, at an initial hearing of bonds, said that self -defense could not be excluded, but Luke ordered the idea, saying Fox News Digital that he had no “evidence” to support it.

“And they said he would try to understand the straws, understand anything. I mean, my brother was attacked from behind while he was bent. It’s not self -defense,” Luka emphasized.

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“I want to be sure that this man never does this again and no other family has to go through what my family has gone through,” he added. “Seeing my brother lying in a hospital bed and can’t move, unable to do anything, it hurts so bad when I know I wasn’t able to be there to protect him because it would do it for me in heartbeat. We as a family want fast justice.”

The couch was the father of a 15-year-old girl.