A family in Oregon is mourning the “sudden loss” of a “bright and cheerful” 8-year-old boy who died last week after falling ill at school the day before.
According to the family’s GoFundMe, Amari King Churchwell felt sick shortly after arriving at school last Monday and went home. His father Kenneth Churchwell said shortly after going home the child collapsed in his arms.
Kenneth rushed his son to a local hospital, where doctors discovered a mass in the back of the boy’s brain that had started bleeding internally.
Doctors immediately inserted a drain into Amari’s head to reduce pressure on his brain before he was transferred to Doernbecher Children’s Hospital in Portland, but unfortunately he could not be saved.
“Unfortunately, the bleeding mass left Amari with limited brain activity,” the family said on the GoFundMe page. “After much prayer, CT scans, consulting with three neurologists and exhausting all options, we had to face the devastating fact that Amari had passed.”
Amari’s mother Dawn Churchwell said her son had “no signs of headaches, no signs of illness, nothing” before his death.
