By the time he was a year old, he was familiar with his ABCs, numbers, colors, shapes, and twenty sight words. We adored the fact that he was our little nerd. He enjoyed learning and going to school. His mother, Amber Shoemake, posted on social media that her son adored documentaries, the weather channel, the history channel, and anything related to history.

“I never thought that would be what would take him away from me.”