Man Who Killed 6-Year-Old Logan Tipton Arrested Again Just Days After Release

The man who was convicted of stabbing 6-year-old Logan Tipton to death was released from prison and then, days later, arrested again.

Ronald Exantus, 42, was arrested in Marion County, Fla. on Thursday, Oct. 9, per the Marion County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) news release. He was required by law to register as a convicted felon with the MCSO within 48 hours, but he failed to do so, according to the agency.

The family says officials told Logan’s family that Exantus was going to serve six months of parole in Florida before returning to Kentucky supervision, WKYT, WHSV and WAFB previously reported. Later, the MCSO was alerted that he had relocated from Kentucky to Marion County. 

Exantus was then found residing in a home that was “immediately adjacent” to an elementary school.

“The fact that he was living right next to an elementary school is even more repulsive,” MCSO Sheriff Woods said, I have no tolerance for this type of dangerous person flaunting our laws and thinking he would hide out in our county.”

He served seven years of his 20-year prison sentence after he was convicted for stabbing 6-year-old Logan Tipton as he slept in his family’s Kentucky home in December 2015. According to Florida Department of Corrections records viewed by PEOPLE, he was scheduled to begin parole supervision on October 6.

The night of the murder, Exantus drove from Indianapolis to the Tiptons’ Versailles home, entered while the family slept, went into the kitchen, took a knife and stabbed Logan in his bedroom as the boy slept, according to CBS News. Logan’s father was injured while subduing the attacker, per the outlet, and two sisters were also hurt.

Exantus was sentenced in April 2018, at age 34. The jury found him not guilty of murder in Logan’s death, by reason of insanity, but guilty on assault charges, as previously reported by PEOPLE. Court records reviewed by PEOPLE also show the jury returned a not guilty by reason of insanity verdict on the burglary charge.

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“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.”