Attorney and Columbia City Councilman Tyler Bailey was hired by the family to independently investigate the child’s death.

Two weeks after Jaysen Carr spent the Fourth of July swimming and riding on a boat on one of South Carolina’s most popular ...

The amoeba entered his brain through his nose, possibly when he jumped into Lake Murray, near Columbia. The CDC said 167 ...

A 12-year-old boy has died from a brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a South Carolina lake over the July Fourth weekend ...

The Carr family, mourning the loss of their 12-year-old son, Jaysen, to a brain-eating amoeba, is calling for significant ...

A 12-year-old South Carolina boy has died after being infected by a rare, brain-eating amoeba found in freshwater, his family’s lawyer said.