‘ Who did this to you?’

The Coles live only a couple of minutes from the school. That morning, they had planned to head to Marysville to watch Logan’s team compete. Ryan had just loaded their youngest, 4-yearold Shiloh, into her car seat when Johnson phoned with the news about Logan.

They raced to the scene and someone immediately ushered them into the bathroom.

A no-nonsense businessman who does pretty well at keeping his emotions in check, Ryan cannot do so when he speaks of seeing his son crumpled there on that floor.

“He looked up at me and said, ‘I love you, Dad,’” he said, choking up. “I said, ‘I love you too, buddy.’” He paused, tried to shake off the emotion. “You’re just trying to make sense of it. So I asked him, ‘Logan, who did this to you?’ He told me ‘It doesn’t even matter, Dad. It doesn’t even matter.’”

Logan’s words surprised her, Julie said, but she knows they shouldn’t have.

“Compassion has always been his love language, if you will. It’s how he communicates,” she said. “So right away, Ryan and I thought that if it didn’t matter to Logan, then it shouldn’t matter to us.”

That doesn’t mean they don’t want justice. Serna remains in juvenile detention and faces 13 charges, including two counts of attempted murder and three counts of felonious assault.

Prosecutors want his case transferred to adult court, and so do the Coles. Justice, however, shouldn’t be confused with vengeance, Julie said. Of that, they have none in their hearts.