'Teen Mom' Star Jenelle Evans' Son Jace Receiving Treatment After Allegedly Warning a Relative

The teenager's cry for help has left fans shaken to the core, and the details are far more alarming than anyone could have anticipated.

Jace Vahn Evans, the 16-year-old son of "Teen Mom" star Jenelle Evans, is currently receiving care at a mental health facility following a violent incident at his grandmother Barbara Evans' North Carolina home in February. Unfortunately, this harrowing situation has apparently been building for a while.

A History of Escalating Struggles

Jace's living situation had shifted around quite a bit over the years, and before last month's incident, he had been staying with his grandmother. But the road to get there had been anything but smooth.

As far back as October 2024, Jenelle had been calling 911 on her own son, reporting that Jace was destroying her Las Vegas home during a heated fight before running off.

He was removed from the reality star's care for roughly a month after that, with Jenelle eventually bringing him back largely because she no longer wanted to foot the bill for his alternative placement.

Then in April 2025, a strikingly similar situation unfolded.

Jenelle placed a frantic call to 911 from her Las Vegas home, gasping for breath as she begged officers to respond because Jace was allegedly "smashing everything in the house." Jace could be heard yelling in the background as she struggled to get through the call.

The reality star painted a chaotic picture for the operator:

"There's debris of a broken door everywhere! He picked up the cage, the dog cage, and [expletive] threw it down the steps."

She also disclosed that Jace had been diagnosed with ADHD and defiant disorder, but was not taking any medication to manage either condition.

When officers arrived, Jace had already taken off.

Jenelle pushed hard for police to place him on an involuntary 72-hour psychiatric hold, but they turned her down, explaining that since Jace hadn't made any threats to harm himself or others, there were no legal grounds to do so.

Officers searched the surrounding neighborhood but were unable to locate him.

In the days that followed, Jenelle appeared largely unbothered, posting pool photos and dinner outings with a friend on social media. She did, however, share a photo of Jace on April 15, 2025, with the caption:

"Mental health is so important and sadly many families have trouble finding support when they need it. This has not been an easy time."

It was a telling post. And as it turns out, things were only getting worse.

The Incident That Changed Everything

On February 22, 2026, law enforcement responded to a call at Barbara's residence, with seven officers dispatched for what authorities categorized as a "troubled teen disturbance."

What sources familiar with the matter shared with TMZ, however, painted a far more terrifying picture: Barbara had told Jenelle that Jace allegedly pulled out a firearm, pressed it against his own head, and threatened to take both his life and Barbara's.

On top of that, there were serious concerns about substance use. Sources claimed Jace had been drinking and taking drugs in the period leading up to the incident, adding yet another layer of urgency to an already desperate situation.

It wasn't until March 10 that the full scope of the aftermath came to light, when the outlet revealed Jace had since been placed in a professional mental health facility.

How long he will remain in care is still unknown, but people close to the family say that his health and stability are the only priorities right now. Neither Jenelle nor Barbara had responded to requests for comment as of publication.

Fans React with Concern for Barbara

The news rippled quickly across social media, with many directing their concern not only toward Jace but toward Barbara, who had been the one standing by him when things reached a breaking point. The reaction was raw and emotional.

On Instagram, one person commented, "His mother failed him the grandmother did the best she can do for him! [sic]."

Another simply wrote, "Grandma!!!! She was the only person there for him 😮."

The sentiment kept coming. "Poor Barbara has been through enough 😩," one fan noted, while another offered a pointed observation, "The woman who raised him?"

The groundswell of support for Barbara speaks to something fans have felt for a long time: that she has carried an enormous weight largely on her own, and that Jace has too often paid the price for the instability surrounding him. For now, all eyes are on his recovery.

And other beloved former reality TV stars have also had trouble recently. "90 Day Fiancé" alum Leida Margaretha and husband Eric Rosenbrook had barely brought baby Alisa Eleanor Rosenbrook home when the worst happened.

And now, months later, a formal investigation has revealed the circumstances around her death and pointed to a culprit. But the distraught father is currently challenging those findings and will not back down.

What Originally Happened to the Baby?

The Fourth of July weekend of 2025 should have been a celebration. Instead, it became the beginning of the worst chapter of Eric and Leida's lives, and it started with an incident in the middle of the night.

Just before 3 a.m. on July 5, police showed up at the couple's Wisconsin home and left with Eric in handcuffs, booked on domestic battery and disorderly conduct charges.

Leida would later tell her followers that he had been drinking that night, and that things turned physical when she refused to pass their newborn daughter over to him.

Eric was locked up while Leida stayed alone in that house with the five-week-old baby and her 12-year-old son, Alessandro, from a previous relationship. But the night was far from over.

What Happened Just a Few Hours Later?

Sometime later that same day, with Eric still behind bars, baby Alisa stopped breathing. Leida desperately called 911.

Emergency responders from the City of Adams Police Department and LifeStar Ambulance Service arrived at the scene, and the tiny infant was rushed first to a nearby hospital, Gunderson Moundview Hospital.

Then, she transferred urgently to UW Health American Family Children's Hospital in Madison, where a team of specialists took over her care.

For five days, she held on, and for five days, her parents waited on opposite sides of an unspoken chasm. Sadly, on July 9, little Alisa passed.

The next day, Eric took to Facebook. "It destroys me and shatters my world to announce that over the weekend tragedy has struck," he wrote, sharing that Alisa had "slipped the surely bonds to join her grandfather Tom."

He asked only for prayers and made it clear he had no intention of reading messages or answering anyone's questions. He seemed so deep in grief, and something that looked a lot like anger, that he had effectively shut the world out entirely.

What Was Leida's Reaction Back Then?

While Eric's post crackled with grief, Leida's response, by contrast, was far more measured.

Throughout Alisa's hospitalization, she posted to Instagram, hinting at personal pain in the vaguest possible terms.

When alleged exchanges between her and a blogger later made the rounds, they raised even more eyebrows, because she appeared strikingly composed, and her account of what had happened to Alisa kept supposedly shifting depending on who she was speaking to.

Around mid-July, Eric reportedly messaged that same blogger to mention that Leida had taken Alessandro to Indonesia and left him in the care of her family there before flying back to the US on her own.

It seemed like an odd detail at the time, but it would later surface in official records confirming the boy was safe with relatives, pointing to just how much had been quietly set in motion behind the scenes.

What Are the New Findings from Officials?

Then came March 2026, and with it, a revelation that reframed everything. The findings that investigators had spent months quietly assembling were now on the record, and they were breathtaking in their severity.

The Medical Examiner's Office had officially ruled Alisa's death "non-accidental."

The Adams County Health and Human Services Department went even further, stating its assessment had "found a preponderance of the evidence to substantiate maltreatment of physical abuse to the infant by the mother."

In short, these means officials were blaming Leida.

The six-month summary report, filed with Wisconsin's Department of Children and Families, explained a timeline that made the findings even harder to absorb.

A caseworker had been inside that very home just three days before Alisa was hospitalized, sitting across from Leida, Alisa, and Alessandro during a scheduled home visit.

And a full week before that, a neglect complaint had already been filed with the agency specifically concerning Alessandro, meaning that on the day everything collapsed, this family was already under active scrutiny.

Still, at this time, the agency has confirmed that "no criminal charges have been filed in this case, and the investigation remains open."

Why is Eric Fighting These Claims?

Eric wasn't about to let those findings go unchallenged. Days after the report became public, he went straight to TMZ with a pointed message: he and Leida, who he confirmed are still married, had retained a private medical examiner, and that expert had serious problems with how the original autopsy was handled.

According to Eric, their specialist found that critical steps in the examination were never completed, and that the report failed to establish a clear timeline for when a referenced fracture actually occurred.

He argued that one injury may trace all the way back to Alisa's C-section birth roughly five weeks before she died, and that a rib fracture flagged in the findings could just as plausibly have resulted from the CPR performed by first responders during resuscitation, since that kind of pressure is known to cause bone fractures even under the best circumstances.

Beyond the autopsy itself, Eric claimed the county agency stonewalled the couple when they attempted to submit additional evidence months prior, and insisted that even local law enforcement had never actually placed blame on Leida.

His frustration with CPS spilled over entirely when speaking to the outlet, where he called the agency "the definition of fascism" and said, "As far as CPS goes, they're a hammer and every parent is a nail."

Where Things Stand Now

No charges have been filed, the investigation remains open, and the standoff between the couple and the official record shows no sign of cooling down.

When TMZ pressed Eric on whether he and Leida were considering having more children together, he said they hadn't arrived at a decision yet.

But the ground they're already standing on is precarious enough. State documents, filed and finalized, name Leida as the substantiated perpetrator of physical abuse against a child who lived for only a few weeks.

Still, the couple's private examiner may yet find enough to challenge those findings, and the criminal investigation may still reach its own conclusions regarding this terrible tragedy.