8-Year-Old Boy Among 5 Killed by Hurricane Dorian as Bahamas Is Battered In 'Historic Tragedy'

Photo: Bahama Press/TwitterAn 8-year-old boy is the first named victim of Hurricane Dorian, which made landfall on Sunday in the Bahamas as a Category 5 storm and caused “extreme destruction,” with storm surges up to 18 feet above normal tide levels, reports say.Lachino McIntosh drowned in the Abaco Islands over the weekend, Lachino’s grandmother, Ingrid McIntosh,told Bahamas’ EyeWitness News through tears. Ingrid said a relative broke the news, telling the doting grandmother that Lachino’s mother found his body while searching for her daughter — the boy’s sister — who remained missing on Monday.

8-Year-Old Boy Dies 1 Day After Going Home Sick and Having No Previous Symptoms

Photo: GoFundMeAn Oregon family is mourning the “sudden loss” of a “bright and cheerful” 8-year-old boy, who died last Tuesday after falling ill at school the day prior.Amari King Churchwell fell ill shortly after arriving at school last Monday, according toa GoFundMe campaignset up to support the boy’s immediate family. Shortly after going home with his father Kenneth Churchwell, Amari collapsed in his dad’s arms.Kenneth rushed his son to a local emergency room, where doctors discovered a mass in the back of Amari’s brain that had started internally bleeding, per the family.

8-Year-Old Boy Fighting for His Life After Father and Brother, 13, Killed in Crash

Photo: GoFundMe An 8-year-old boy is in critical condition after surviving a car crash that killed his father and older brother this week in Michigan. Robert Keys, 42, was driving his sons, 8-year-old Elliot and 13-year-old Sylas, on Monday when his 2015 Toyota Corolla crossed into oncoming traffic and collided with another vehicle, according to theWNDU. Roads were wet at the time of the incident, theHerald-Palladiumreports. Both Robert and Sylas were killed, while Elliot survived and was hospitalized after being removed from the vehicle with the Jaws of Life, the outlet reports.

8-Year-Old Boy Finds Lost World Series Ring at Minute Maid Park and Returns it to Owner

Photo:ABC7 Chicago ABC7 Chicago An 8-year-old boy found a World Series championship ring during his first outing to a Houston Astros game — and got it back to the man who lost it. Meanwhile, Neymar Davalos, 8, had spotted the jewelry piece — which had been given to Muñoz and all ballpark employees when the Astros won the World Series in 2022 — and presented it to his dad as a Father’s Day gift.

8-Year-Old Boy Hospitalized After Fourth of July Shark Bite on Fla. Beach

Photo: Getty An 8-year-old boy is currently in stable condition after surviving a shark bite on a Florida beach on the Fourth of July. According to theOrlando Sentinel, the boy was bitten in the right leg at around 4 p.m. local time. Volusia County Beach SafetyOcean Rescue reports an average of eight to 10 shark bites per year, usually always non-life-threatening. However, the University of Florida’sInternational Shark Attack Filedesignated Volusia County as the “shark bite capital of the world” following its 2020 data collection.