Convicted Killer of 6-Year-Old Boy Released from Prison

“When I got to the top of the stairs, he attacked me with a knife,” Logan’s father, Dean Tipton, told WKYT. “He stood up with me on top of him, just stood up and threw me 10 to 15 feet across the room and went after my daughter,” he told KKTV.

“He stabbed me in the back, and then stomped on my head," Logan’s sister Dakota Tipton told the outlet. "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."

“He didn’t just kill my son," Heather Tipton, Logan's mother, said during Exantus' sentencing hearing, per LEX 18. "He killed every member of my family, every single one of us, and every person that’s sitting here today is a completely different person than they were when they went to bed December 6."

“You took a human being’s life,” the boy’s father said, per the outlet. “Mentally ill or not, your life should be at least life in prison without the possibility of parole. It just seems like a 6-year-old’s life is worth more than 10 years in prison.”

“I’ve had my talks with God, but like I told the court, if I ever cross paths with him, I will kill the man,” Dean Tipton told WKYT.