<\/p>\n
Hieu Huynh holds up a photograph of Nahn Lee, his brother. Lee was brutally attacked with a pipe July 17. Lee says the man who allegedly carried out the attack is the same man charged in connection with four separate attacks the same week.<\/p>\n
Tanya Babbar\/Staff Writer<\/p>\n
Quy Nguyen, 74, holds up a photograph July 24 of Nahn Lee, a Houston man on life support after being allegedly brutally attacked by a man with a long criminal history. Nguyen stands next to April Aguirre, a crime victim advocate, and Hieu Huynh, Lee’s brother.<\/p>\n
Tanya Babbar\/Staff Writer<\/p>\n
The brother of\u00a0Nhan Le, who was left on on life support after he was brutally beaten outside of a Dunkin Donuts store this month, stood in front of a Northwest Houston hospital Friday and demanded justice through tears.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to raise my voice so it won\u2019t happen again,\u201d Hieu Huynh, 35, said of the attack on his brother, who is at HCA Houston Healthcare Northwest.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Joshua\u00a0McDaniel, 28, is accused of beating Le with a pipe on July 17 outside of the restaurant in\u00a0northwest Harris County.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n
McDaniel is charged with aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury in connection to the attack on Le, court records show.<\/p>\n
Le was not immediately named in the complaint against McDaniel because investigators could not identify him at the time of the attack, Thomas Gilliland, a spokesperson for the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, said Monday. If Le is taken off life support, McDaniel could be charged with murder, Gilliland said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
McDaniel, who is referred to as “Big Boy” in criminal complaints, is accused of attacking several other people the same week Le was hospitalized.<\/p>\n
Authorities allege McDaniel attacked a second man with a blunt object on July 17, the same day Le was attacked, the records state. He is also accused of threatening another man with a machete and punching a woman the day prior, court records show.<\/p>\n
Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n
McDaniel’s bail was set at $250,000 each for three felony aggravated assault charges and $5,000 for a misdemeanor assault charge in the case of the woman who was punched, according to the court documents.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they committed a crime, they have to pay \u2026 This is way too much,\u201d Huynh said Friday before breaking into tears. Huynh is asking the public to donate to a GoFundMe for his brother’s medical expenses.<\/a> As of Monday, the fundraiser had reached nearly $60,000 in donations.<\/p>\n