Photo: Amy Applegate When Reiland Applegate first had a peanut at age 2, itwas immediately clear that he had a severe allergy. As his parents rushed him to the hospital, Reiland was projectile vomiting and wheezing and was covered in hives. “It looked like fire against his skin,” his mom, Amy Applegate, 39, tells PEOPLE. “It was the craziest thing I’d ever seen.” As Reiland got older — he’s now 9 — hisallergy grew progressively worse....

The Labradoodle puppies on the lawn were in a licking mood on the day 7-year-old Evan Moss went to visit 4 Paws for Ability in Xenia, Ohio. In August, little Evan traveled from Virginia for his first meeting with the service-dogs-in-training who could one day save his life. “The dogs kissed me on my face a whole lot,” Evan tells PEOPLE in an excited, squeaky voice. “Too much, actually!” Little boys might not love getting kisses all the time, but Evan is looking forward to a new best friend to cuddle with in the night....

Photo: Facebook Officials have declared the June 14 death of a 6-year-old Bronx boy who fainted while on the lunch line at school a homicide, PEOPLE confirms. NYPD sources tell PEOPLE that Shanice Martin, the mother of Tyzavier Martin, has been in custody since she allegedly attacked him the evening of April 27. The 24-year-old mother allegedly used a box cutter to slash the necks of both Tyzavier and another young child in the home....

The child allegedly used Mann’s keys to remove the gun from her locked gun safe at about 7 a.m. on Nov. 21. He allegedly told detectives he’d taken the gun out because he was angry Mann had woken him up 30 minutes early, and because he was upset she would not let him buy the headset from Amazon. One day after the killing, he logged into his deceased mother’s Amazon account to buy the Oculus Virtual Reality Headset anyway, the complaint alleges....

The death of a 10-year-old California boy is being investigated after he was found with severe head injuries and cigarette burns all over his body in his home last week. Anthony Avalos came out to his family weeks before he died in Lancaster, California, authorities have revealed. Before he died Anthony had “said he liked boys,” Brandon Nichols, the deputy director of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, saidaccording to theLos Angeles Times....

Photo: GoFundMe Micah Tennant, the 10-year-old boy who wasshot last week in New Jersey at a high school football game, has died. “On behalf of the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office, we would like to express our sincere condolences to the Tennant family on the tragic passing of Micah,” Tyner said. “Words at this time seem so insufficient to portray the anger and outrage that our community feels regarding his loss,” he continued....

Anthony Duran.Photo: FacebookPolice are investigating what led to a 10-year-old boy’s death inside a trampoline park this week in California.Investigators say the boy, Anthony Duran, collapsed last Thursday night after he got into a fight with another child while they were playing basketball and that the other child ran away afterward.The altercation took place at the Rockin' Jump Trampoline Park in Merced, Calif., about 100 miles east of San Jose. The Merced Police DepartmentsaidAnthony was transported to a local hospital, “but unfortunately did not survive....

Photo: Shannon Miller A 10-year-old boy miraculously survived falling from a ladder onto a foot-long meat skewer that penetrated his face, theKansas City Starreports. While fleeing the wasps, the boy fell 4 feet head-first as he climbed down a ladder, and landed on a meat skewer that passed straight through his face to the back of his skull. “I heard screaming, and I went running down the stairs,” Xavier’s mother, Gabrielle Miller, told the newspaper....

Photo: Indiana State Police An Indiana boy allegedly fired on his state-trooper father because he was angry that his video games had been taken away, according to multiple news reports. Santiago Flores/South Bend Tribune via AP The boy was taken into custody without incident once police arrived at the scene. Makowski, who suffered a single gunshot wound, was taken to the hospital where he underwent surgery. He is in stable condition, according toNBC....

Surveillance footage.Photo:ABCNews/YouTubeAn 11-year-old boy in Florida has been charged with attempted murder after shooting and injuring two 13-year-olds over a disagreement on a football field — and additional charges will likely be filed against the adults who left the unlocked gun within reach of children, police say.“We shouldn’t have 11 year olds that have access to guns and think that they can resolve a dispute with a firearm,” Apopka Police Chief Mike McKinley said at apress conferenceWednesday....

Photo: ABC 7 An 11-year-old boy sprang into action last week when an earthquake rocked Ridgecrest, California, prompting him to flee a laundromat with his toddler sister in his arms. Surveillance footage shows Armando Suarez running out of the building with his 2-year-old sister Arianna in his arms when a 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck on Friday,according to KABC. Ceiling tiles fell around the children as they fled, but no one was injured, KABC reported....

The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Officewrote on Facebookthat police responded to a call on July 25 about an “unresponsive juvenile with an apparent gunshot wound,” who died two days later at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in Fayetteville. The department’s Special Victims Unit detectives filed a complaint to the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) on Friday to charge the boy with one count of manslaughter and two counts of larceny of a firearm....

Adventureland Park in Altoona, Iowa.Photo: google maps One person is dead after a raft on a theme park water ride flipped over Saturday. Six people were on the Raging River ride atAdventureland Resortin Iowa at 7:30 p.m. local time when the raft overturned, a spokesperson for the Altoona Police Department said on Twitter. “3 critical patients & 1 minor injury patient were transported to a local hospital,” the spokespersonsaid. On Sunday, Adventureland officials confirmed that one of the injured died....