‘Bravest little boy in America’: 8-year-old killed while trying to save his mom from violent attack
An Illinois community is mourning the death of an 8-year-old boy who heroically tried to save his mother’s life. Leland “Lee” Arnett, 8, was killed while trying to save his mother from her allegedly abusive boyfriend. He was beaten to death with a baseball bat inside the family’s home in De Soto, Illinois, on May…