An amended petition filed in court Monday says 45-year-old Bienvenu Asumani died Sunday.
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Court records show the father of a 10-year-old Nebraska boy has died, days after he fell in their home and was found being cared for by his son.
An amended petition filed in court Monday says 45-year-old Bienvenu Asumani died Sunday. Additional information about his death wasn't available.
Lincoln police say an investigator went to the home Friday after a principal reported Peter Asumani had missed four days of school. An affidavit says the boy told police his father fell on a wet floor more than a week before, striking his head. The boy says he gave his father fluids and food.
Peter said he couldn't communicate with his father during the ordeal. The two lived alone in the house. Police spokewoman Katie Flood said it wasn't clear whether the boy knew about the 911 phone system that he could have used to summon help or whether he tried to contact a neighbor or anyone else for help.
Russ Reno, a spokesman, for the Nebraska Health and Human Services Department would confirm only that the boy was in foster care on Monday. Reno wouldn't comment directly on the case but said it was routine in such cases for the department to immediately begin searching for a child's relatives.
The boy told officials he had relatives in Arizona and his mother was in Africa, according to the affidavit.
