Stratford High teachers' one-year-old son dies after battling brain cancer

Logan McCombs, the one-year-old boy of Stratford High School teachers Shawn and Stella McCombs, and the focus of an outpouring of community support after he was diagnosed with a rare form of brain tumor, has died.

At Stratford High School tonight, a previously planned multiple-band fundraising concert for the family went ahead as scheduled, before a tearful audience.

"People are crying already," said Tyler Boone, a 2008 Stratford graduate who organized the event to help the family with medical bills. "There are pictures of Logan everywhere."

The infant was diagnosed with the rare condition known as a primitive neuroectodermal tumor at the end of last year, and went through several rounds of chemotherapy at MUSC. On Thursday, the family learned that Logan's tumor was growing and another had been found.

He was taken off of life support Friday and died at 5:54 p.m., surrounded by his family, the McCombs' said in their web journal.

"Thank you. You will never know how much you have helped and continue to help us find strength," Stella McCombs wrote on Friday evening. "We know that our sweet Logan is running free with the angels, with a full head of hair and that beautiful smile, waving down at all of us."

Read more in Sunday's editions of The Post and Courier.