Daniel Lee, 34

Died Dec. 7, 2007 at 1:07 a.m.

Daniel Thomas Lee, 34, a white man, died at 1:07 a.m. Friday, Dec. 7 from head injuries he received in a baseball bat attack in an apartment complex at Downey Avenue and Elburg Street in Paramount more than a year before.

The incident took place February 6, 2006. Suspect Kenneth Penn Jr., a 24-year-old black man, was convicted for the crime and is now serving time in state prison.

According to Sheriff's Lt. Dave Coleman, Lee and Penn got into an argument one day in February, then met later and resumed the fight. After Penn hit him in the head with the bat, Lee was taken to St. Francis hospital in a coma.

He was later transferred to Memorial Hospital in Gardena. He remained comatose the entire 22 months before his death.