Tristan Allegra

PORT ST. LUCIE — Students and staff at Mariposa Elementary School remember Tristan Allegra, 8, “very kind and helpful, cool and funny,” according to a counselor who helped them cope with the third-grader’s Christmas Day death.

“Tristan was a popular kid, very well-liked,” said Robert O’Neill, a St. Lucie County School District psychologist, one of three counselors who went to the school Monday and Tuesday as classes resumed after the holiday break.

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According to a Port St. Lucie Police Department arrest affidavit, Tristan died after his mother, Eryn Allegra, of the 2200 block of Southeast Bowie Street, smothered him in his sleep early Christmas morning in a hotel room. She is held without bond on a charge of first-degree murder.

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JENSEN BEACH — A funeral Mass for Tristan Allegra, an 8-year-old boy who was killed Christmas Day, allegedly smothered to death by his mother, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Martin De Porres Catholic Church, 2555 N.E. Savannah Road, according to All County Funeral Home & Crematory.

The mother, 31-year-old Eryn Allegra, who is in the St. Lucie County Jail on a first-degree murder charge, was not listed as a survivor. Tristan was a student at Mariposa Elementary School in Port St. Lucie. (more…)

FORT PIERCE — An 11-year-old boy accused of hitting his mother in the head with a saw before offering her $5 not to call police is facing an aggravated battery charge, according to a St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office report released Thursday.

The altercation happened Wednesday morning in the 1700 block of Wyoming Avenue after the boy and his 41-year-old mother argued as she tried to get him to take his medication. Following the argument, the boy bicycled to the Wyoming Avenue address, where he apparently started hitting a tree with a saw.

The mother followed him but he still wouldn’t take the medicine. He raised the saw and hit his mother, who had a minor laceration, on top of her head.

“When he saw the blood coming from her head he threw down the saw and started to plead with the victim to not call the police,” the report states.

He reportedly offered a $5 bill to his mother if she didn’t notify authorities. (more…)