WYLIE — An arrest warrant affidavit released Monday revealed that six-year-old Gerren Isgrigg was abandoned three days before his body was found in a park near Lavon Lake.
According to the affidavit, Isgrigg's grandmother, 63-year-old Darlene Phillips, said she left the boy with a note stating, "I'm 6, I have seizures, I need medication and a feeding tube [sic]." Investigators never found that note.
Philips told investigators that she had "removed the feeding tube from the child prior to taking him to the park area." According to the family, Isgrigg was alive when she left.
Isgrigg suffered from West Syndrome, a rare epileptic disorder. The little boy was also deaf, blind and did not have control of his limbs. His body was found in a pile of brush and had been covered with a blanket. According to the affidavit, the child's body was not visible from the road.
It took days for the boy to be identified.
Gerren's mother, Nyki Phillips, had apparently left the boy with her parents three years ago. Darlene Phillips is now in the Collin County Jail facing murder charges. She made a brief court appearance on Monday.
The dead child's father, Jerry Isgrigg, is a Marine and is stationed in California. He and Nyki Phillips divorced in 2006.
Jerry Isgrigg plans to travel to Texas this week to claim his son's body.
