Family Seeks Prayers for Beaten TX Officer Still in Coma

A Sour Lake (TX) Police officer who was brutally beaten on Memorial Day remains hospitalized and is in a coma.

The daughter of officer William 'Bill' McKeon, Jr., 59, took to Facebook Sunday evening mentioning that he was in a coma and asked for prayers for the severely injured officer, 12 News reports.

Burns said in the post that her father could wake up in three weeks or as long as three months.

McKeon was attacked while answering a call on the night of May 27, 2019.

Doctors on Friday wired McKeon’s jaw shut during surgery and repaired fractures to his face, forehead and sinus cavity.

Bradley Joseph Pruitt, 45, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, was arrested and charged in the attack