The Boulder County Coroner’s Office has identified the man who died Christmas Eve after he was attacked on Dec. 19 in his home near Longmont.
Steven Craig, 60, died Sunday after sustaining life-threatening blunt-force injuries on Dec. 19. Following the attack, Michael Lucky, who had ongoing cases in which a relative of Craig’s was the victim, surrendered at the Boulder County Jail.
The coroner’s office said the cause and manner of death are pending further investigation.
Lucky, 32, was charged with attempted first-degree murder – after deliberation, first-degree assault with a deadly weapon, first-degree burglary – menacing/assault, two counts of stalking and three counts of violating a protection order. He was also charged with four sentence enhancers. However, following Craig’s death, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office said it is working with the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office to amend the charges.
Lucky is in custody on a $1 million cash-only bond.
According to an affidavit, at 12:24 a.m. Dec. 19, Boulder County Sheriff deputies responded to a residence outside Longmont on a call for a “medical emergency.” When they arrived, 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 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 there, deputies reported that a door connecting the bedroom to the backyard had been shattered inward and glass was scattered on the bedroom floor. Following a sweep, police found an ax with a 3-foot handle that had fresh blood on it in the backyard. There was also a blood trail from the bedroom door to where the ax was located, according to the affidavit.
Another witness later told deputies that Lucky was known to carry an ax in his Jeep, which was located by police near the residence at 4:11 a.m. the morning of the incident.
At 8:30 a.m. Dec. 19, Lucky turned himself in to the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office. When he surrendered, deputies noted that there was blood splattered on his right arm.
Lucky had two ongoing cases that began in December at the time of the incident. In one case, Lucky is charged with four counts of stalking and one count of violation of a protection order. In another December case which was filed two days after the first, he is charged with two counts of violation of a protection order.
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