Victim dies, officials to review charges

A 60-year- old man died Sunday following the injuries he sustained in a Dec. 19 attack just outside Longmont.

According to an affidavit, the victim sustained life- threatening bluntforce injuries on the night of Dec. 19 and was airlifted to a trauma center.

In a release sent Monday, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office said the man had died.

The Boulder County Coroner’s Office will determine the official cause and manner of death. The man’s name has not yet been released.

On Thursday, Michael Lucky, 32, was charged with attempted firstdegree murder — after deliberation, firstdegree assault with a deadly weapon, firstdegree burglary — menacing/assault, two counts of stalking and three counts of violating a protection order. He was also charged with four sentence enhancers.

In the release, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office said it is working with the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office to amend Lucky’s charges.

Lucky remains in custody on a $1 million cashonly bond.

According to an affidavit, at 12:24 a.m. Dec. 19, Boulder County sheriff deputies responded to a residence outside Longmont in Boulder County on a call for a “medical emergency.” When they arrived on scene, police were told by a witness who had been asleep in the same room as the victim that she sleeps without her hearing aids and that in the middle of the night she awoke to what sounded to her like a loud boom.

The witness told deputies initially she thought it was thunder and said it seemed like the victim was pushing something away from him. The witness initially believed this to be dogs jumping on the bed, but she said she couldn’t tell as the room was “pitch black.” She then left the room to get help and returned to find the victim lying in bed bleeding severely from the head and neck and not breathing effectively.

While on scene, deputies reported that a door connecting the bedroom to the backyard had been shattered and glass was scattered on the bedroom floor.