Father of Slain 6-Year-Old Vows to KILL Son’s Murderer, Who Was Freed After Just 8 Years in Prison
The father of a 6-year-old boy brutally murdered in a 2015 home invasion has publicly threatened to kill his son’s attacker after the man was released on parole after serving only about eight years behind bars.
The murder occurred on December 7, 2015, in Versailles, Kentucky, when Ronald Exantus, 38, broke into the home of the Tipton family in the middle of the night.
Exantus, who had no prior connection to the family, randomly selected their house and proceeded to stab the sleeping residents with a kitchen knife he found in the home.
Young Logan Tipton, just 6 years old, was the primary target of the attack. Exantus slashed the boy repeatedly in the head, killing him while he screamed for help.
Logan’s father, Dean Tipton, confronted the intruder and was stabbed in the process before being thrown 10 to 15 feet across the room.
Exantus also attacked Logan’s sister, Dakota Tipton, stabbing her in the back and stomping on her head.
Dakota, who survived the ordeal, later recounted the horror: “He stabbed me in the back. And then stomped on my head. And I remember waking up across the room, not where I was at, and I looked and he was killing Logan and Logan was screaming.”
According to reports, Exantus told Dakota during the attack that he intended to kill every member of the family.
Exantus was arrested at the scene.
In 2018, after a trial, a jury found him not guilty of murder by reason of insanity but convicted him on assault charges related to the attacks on Dean and Dakota Tipton.
He was sentenced to 20 years in prison.