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\nWhile attending a party, 16-year-old Cole Hagan was lured outside and attacked. (Photo Credit: Provided)<\/p>\n
During a party, a promising teen athlete was lured into an ambush and brutally beaten. As the victim lay in a coma, his family decided there was good reason to file a lawsuit.<\/p>\n
Cole Hagan, 16, was hospitalized and faced with the possibility of never fully recovering from his injuries after he was ambushed and brutally beaten by a group of his peers. The Texas teen was at a pool party in Lake Jackson when a couple of his Brazoswood High School classmates told him that his truck had been hit. However, it was all a ruse to lure the boy outside alone.<\/p>\n
Insider reports that when Hagan went outside, another teen jumped him. The ambush had been planned several days in advance by 17-year-old Reid Mitchell who, along with 18-year-old Logan Huber and 17-year-old Ayden Holland, caught Hagan off-guard. Huber told police that he watched \u201cReid Mitchell punch (Cole Hagan), bear hug him, slap him to the ground and then get on top of him and elbow him in the face.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nWhile attending a party, 16-year-old Cole Hagan was lured outside and attacked. (Photo Credit: Provided)<\/p>\n
After beating Hagan to a bloody pulp, Mitchell called one of the victim\u2019s friends, telling them to \u201ccome get your boy.\u201d Classmates then found Hagan\u2019s lifeless body \u201claying in the street bleeding from his ears.\u201d He was rushed to Memorial Hermann Hospital with multiple brain bleeds and skull fractures, a broken collarbone, and other injuries.<\/p>\n
Hagan was placed on a ventilator in a coma. When he regained consciousness, he thought he had been in a car accident and selflessly asked if his friends were okay.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat right there killed me because that\u2019s who he is, and that\u2019s why it made this thing so heinous,\u201d Hagan\u2019s brother said. \u201cThey chose the weakest link. They chose the person that they had to lure outside to fight because he was not a kid that if you called him out, he was going to come out there and fight you in the yard.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\nLeft to right: Ayden Holland, 17, Logan Huber, 18, and Reid Mitchell, 17, were charged with aggravated assault and released on bond. (Photo Credit: Lake Jackson Police Department)<\/p>\n
The attack is alleged to have been over a girl, namely Mitchell\u2019s then-girlfriend, but this is unconfirmed. Hagan\u2019s brother says that Mitchell was angry that the girl had chosen to move on from him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese high school boys and young men, they feel like they own these girls that they date, even when they break up,\u201d Hagan\u2019s brother added. \u201cThey think they can tell them who they can take a picture with and who they can stand with and who their next boyfriend can be.\u201d<\/p>\n
Following the attack, Mitchell was arrested and charged with aggravated assault. He was released on a $20,000 bond. Huber and Holland were charged with aggravated assault and released out on bail. However, Hagan\u2019s family wasn\u2019t about to rely on these singular charges to obtain justice.<\/p>\n
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\nCole Hagan suffered multiple brain bleeds and skull fractures and was placed on a ventilator. (Photo Credit: Provided)<\/p>\n
According to KHOU, Hagan\u2019s family filed a lawsuit against the boy\u2019s three attackers and their parents, claiming that they all knew about plans to \u201cattack Cole Hagan.\u201d The lawsuit named at least 16 people, seeking more than $50 million in damages. The suit also alleged that at least 8 other students were aware of the attack before it happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this juncture, we believe the identity of all those involved has been established and other charges are pending,\u201d according to a statement from the Lake Jackson Police Department.<\/p>\n
While some may question why the lawsuit named the families of the teens, Hagan\u2019s brother hoped to snuff out any sympathy for the attackers\u2019 parents, claiming that no one had expressed any concern or guilt for his brother.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe haven\u2019t received one apology from any of the parents or any of the young adults that were involved in it. There\u2019s not been one ounce of remorse,\u201d Hagan\u2019s brother said.<\/p>\n
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\nThe family said none of the teens nor their parents have contacted his family to apologize or check on Cole Hagan (pictured). (Photo Credit: Provided)<\/p>\n
After a week in intensive care, Hagan was moved to a rehabilitation unit to undergo speech and mobility therapy. At the time the lawsuit was filed, it was still unclear whether he would ever make a full recovery. It\u2019s likely that he will never play football at a competitive level again.<\/p>\n
Hagan\u2019s family hoped the lawsuit would hold responsible not only the attackers but everyone who knew about the ambush and did nothing to stop it. Hopefully, at minimum, this makes others realize that when they see or hear something, they need to say or do something, lest they be held accountable for being complicit in heinous acts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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