A 10-year-old boy is dead after unexpectedly collapsing during one of his Little League baseball games on Long Island late last week. Lazar LaPenna, a fourth grader at East School in Long Beach, New York, “passed away suddenly” last Friday while he was playing a baseball game.
His death came one day after he celebrated his 10th birthday. Now, tributes are pouring in as the community rallies around his mourning family. Related: Teen Girl Allegedly Beaten To Death By Her Father Who ‘Did Not Trust Her’ With Prom LaPenna’s death was first announced earlier this week, after Dr.
Jennifer Gallagher, the Superintendent of Long Beach Public Schools, released a letter to the community via social media.
In it, the district leader wrote: So, so sad. In a subsequent interview with WABC, Lazar’s father Gregg LaPenna (pictured above) revealed that his late son had been diagnosed with epilepsy some years before.
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