An Indiana man convicted of killing his 3-month-old son was attacked outside the courtroom by a family member who punched him several times.
Boes was arrested in May 2018 and charged with murder.
The attacker was later identified as Jamie Hartley, the brother of the child’s mother.
Footage showed deputies rushing to restrain Hartley, who was brought down to the ground.
WPXI posted the story on its Facebook page, where it sparked strong reactions.
“I really don’t feel bad for the man in orange,” one person wrote in the comment section.
Son of Murdered Woman Tries to Attack Suspected Killer in Court
The incident recalls the recent case of a Michigan man accused of shooting his wife to death and then being nearly attacked in court by the victim’s son.Flowers is a suspect in the May 19 shooting of 50-year-old Jamie Thomas-Flowers, who was at her home in Muskegon Heights, Michigan, when she was shot multiple times.
According to Muskegon Heights Police Chief Joseph E. Thomas Jr., the suspect kicked in the door at around 6:30 a.m. and shot his wife four times in the torso with a handgun.
Flowers then fled on foot but later turned himself in to Muskegon Heights police.
The Attempted Attack in the Courtroom
The video from MLive shows the victim’s son, London Thomas, jumping up from his seat and leaping over a courtroom barrier, at which point he ran towards the suspect, who at the time was seated in a jurors box, in an attempt to attack him.Thomas was quickly apprehended by courtroom police and then arrested.
According to police, Thomas was later brought before Muskegon County District Judge Raymond Kostrzewa where he was held in civil contempt of court and barred from any future proceedings in the courtroom.
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While the overall rate of violent crime has seen a steady downward drop since its peak in the 1990s, there have been several upticks that bucked the trend.
Between 2014 and 2016, the murder rate increased by more than 20 percent, to 5.4 per 100,000 residents, from 4.4, according to an Epoch Times analysis of FBI data. The last two-year period that the rate soared so quickly was between 1966 and 1968.