Emily Diaz is speaking out again—this time with greater urgency and determination—as she provides a new update about her son Lenny, the Montgomery County middle schooler who suffered a traumatic brain injury after being struck in the head by a metal object during gym class on October 22, 2025.
Diaz says her son, Lenny, was hit by “a metal object thrown by another student” during gym at Odessa Shannon Middle School in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Principal Natasha Booms informed the school community in an email that the incident involved a “metal object,” and that staff members were offering support to the family…