Saturday May 17th, 2025 2:40AM

10-year-old dies after saying he felt ill

By The Associated Press
<p>Investigators are awaiting the results of an autopsy to determine why a 10-year-old Cherokee County boy died after saying he felt ill.</p><p>The boy died Monday at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite.</p><p>Investigators are awaiting the results of a preliminary autopsy to determine how the child died, said Cherokee County Sheriff's Office spokesman Sgt. Jay Baker.</p><p>Baker said the fourth-grader complained that he wasn't feeling well after he got on the school bus early Monday. The child still wasn't feeling well when he arrived at Free Home Elementary School in northeast Cherokee County, so school administrators called his mother and an ambulance, Baker said.</p><p>The boy was taken to the hospital, where he died.</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x1cd991c)</p>
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