From the Massachusetts Republican:

Caryl Schivley has the cookie that killed her son Brenton. A piece is missing where Brent took a bite of the peanut butter-based cookie.

A friend who was with him when he ate the cookie told Caryl that 16-year-old Brent said, “I shouldn’t have eaten that.” He took Benadryl, an antihistamine, which usually was all he needed to stop an allergic reaction to peanuts.

The cookie was actually a Little Debbie Nutty Bar, but it had been removed from its labeled box and placed on a plate when it was offered to Brent at a friend’s house. Caryl said it looks very much like a chocolate wafer cookie, the kind Brent loved. The individual portions of the Little Debbie snack are packaged in plain wrapping.

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