Thirteen-year-old Johnny Martin’s love for dogs first began during his strenuous chemotherapy for soft cell cancer.For more than a year, Martin spent nearly every weekday at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago, Fox Denverreports, for cancer treatment.The rare form of cancer has been taxing for the teenager. Along with receiving chemotherapy, Martin also underwent a surgery to completely remove the cancer growing in his chest that reportedly took an operating team 26 hours to finish....

Photo: ABC News Despite the horrific ordeal, though, the 13-year-oldsays he’s eager to swim again. “[I] definitely wanna get back out there,” Webre-Hayes told a classroom full of students when he returned to school on Wednesday,according toGood Morning America. He told the class he hopes to get back to surfing, “really, really soon.” Wednesday marked the boy’s first public statements regarding the September incident. Webre-Hayes was diving for lobsters with a friend just off the coast of Encinitas, a popular beach city in San Diego County, California, when an at least 10-foot shark attacked....

Adeem Berry, 14, was arrested after a standoff for allegedly shooting his mother and her boyfriend, killing his mother.Photo:Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. A teenager faces murder charges after allegedly killing his mother and injuring her boyfriend in a shooting in Riverview, Fla., according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO). The mother was Tiffany Harris, 39, the victim’s family confirms to PEOPLE. On Saturday afternoon, police received “several 911 emergency calls” in the area of the shooting: One neighbor said a male had been shot multiple times, and another caller said a boy was running through the streets “waving a firearm,” HCSO Sheriff Chad Chronister said at apress conferenceon Saturday....

Photo: Nicole Hensley/Houston Chronicle/AP A teenage boy faces a murder charge in Houston after an alleged egg-throwing prank set off a chain of events that ended with a deadly vehicle crash, authorities announced. Police allege that on Tuesday, a 14-year-old boy was driving two other teenagers in a tan GMC Arcadia when he disregarded a traffic signal and collided with a pickup truck, theHarris County Sheriff’s Officesaid in a news release Wednesday....

All six people were transported to area hospitals following the crash, per the release. None of the teens were wearing seatbelts at the time of the collision, according to Texas DPS. Ayden is the latest teen to succumb to his injuries. Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories....

Photo: Gofundme A mother is in mourning after her son died at a rodeo in North Carolina on Saturday. It was his first time riding a bull. Denim Bradshaw, 14, was killed as he competed in King, North Carolina, located about 15 miles northwest of Winston-Salem, on Saturday. Stokes County EMS was called to the rodeo just before 8:30 p.m. in response to acardiac arrest, Fox News reports. Stokes County EMS did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment on Monday night....

Photo: Carroll County Sheriff’s Office An Ohio grand jury on Wednesday indicted a 29-year-old man accused ofreckless homicide in the death of a 14-year-old boyhe’s alleged to have buried on the farm where they had both worked. During a press conference late Wednesday, prosecutors laid out the charges against Matthew Little, who remains in custody without bond. Prosecutors referred to Little as a “friend” of teenage victim Jonathan Minard’s family while describing the boy’s death as “unintentional....

One boy isn’t letting limb difference get in the way of his achievements. Eventually, Tim makes the jump — an achievement met with applause and tears. NubAbility is a non-profit organization that instructs and encourages congenital and traumatic amputee youth athletes to compete in mainstream sports. Instructors offer adaptive techniques for each sport a camper is interested in, from football and soccer to skiing and fishing. According to TMZ, Tim, 14, has been attending NubAbility camp for years and has participated in several sports, including volleyball....

Aime Salinas Alvarado.Photo: GoFundMe A 15-year-old boy has been charged with his mother’s murder in Texas, where investigators allege he has confessed to the killing. Aime Alvarado Salinas, 47, died from a single gunshot to the head, according to Dallas police. The woman’s body was found on Friday, inside her Dallas residence, after Alvarado Salinas' own parents contacted authorities, requesting a welfare check for their daughter, who had been caring for her 2-year-old granddaughter at the time....

Getty.Photo: Getty Images A 15-year-old Texas boy is charged with murder after surveillance video allegedly captured him beating his mother to death. The teen was found in the area following a search and taken into custody. Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up forPEOPLE’s free True Crime newsletterfor breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases. “Our hearts go out to the victim’s family during this extremely difficult time,” McKinney Police said in the news release....

Photo: google maps A shooting occurred at a junior high school in Arkansas the day students returned to the campus after months of distance learning. The boy was hospitalized and in very serious condition, ABC News reported. google maps The Pine Bluff Police Department did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request to comment. Watson Chapel Junior High updated parents via Facebook as the events unfolded on Monday. In the first post, the schoolannounced, “All campuses are on lock down....

A 15-year-old boy from Florida has been arrested on murder charges after confessing to strangling his mother, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said. On Saturday morning, the office said in astatement on Facebookthat Gregory Logan Ramos confessed to killing his 46-year-old mother, Gail Cleavenger, at the family’s home in DeBary. After killing his mother during the early hours of Friday morning, Ramos transported her body to a local church and buried her “beneath a fire pit” before going back to their house and enlisting “the help of two friends, also juveniles, to stage a burglary scene,” officials said....

Mason Dark.Photo: GoFundMe A North Carolina teen is “unrecognizable” after burning a majority of his body while participating in an alleged social media challenge, according to his mom. The teen suffered second and third-degree burns as a result of the accident, according to his mother’s statement. About 75% of his body was burned. The teen underwent “the first of many surgeries” on Apr. 26, where he received skin grafts as part of his recovery process, his mother said in her statement....