Northside Independent School District offered grief counseling on Monday to students who attended a far west Bexar County school with a boy who died this past weekend.

Sevani Stevenson, 6, was found dead in his home Saturday afternoon along with his 3-year-old sister, Miyani Islar.

In an email, Barry Perez, NISD’s assistant superintendent for communications, confirmed Stevenson was a first grader at Reed Elementary School.

However, he declined to release a statement on the deaths of the two children.

Bexar County sheriff’s deputies arrested the mother of the children, Tiona Islar, 28, on two counts of injury to a child causing death.

Sheriff Javier Salazar spoke to reporters outside the family’s home on Chancery Gate, saying that Islar told investigators her children died as a result

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