A 16-year-old Tennessee student killed himself after being outed as gay or bisexual by online bullies, according to his family.
The family of a 16-year-old student who took his own life earlier this week says the teen had been outed as gay or bisexual by online bullies immediately before killing himself, according to reports.
Channing Smith of Manchester, Tennessee fatally shot himself Sunday night after Coffee County Central High School classmates posted a screenshot of revealing text messages between Smith and another boy on Instagram and Snapchat, his family says.news station WKRN that"posting one little picture can destroy somebody's life."
"You can't understand it. How somebody could be that mean to somebody just for the fun of it? It doesn't make any sense," she said.WZTV that he believes the posts were made in retaliation for an earlier argument, and that Channing had called one of the alleged bullies with a warning that he was about to kill himself, but the information was not shared with anyone.
"Being in a small, rural town in the middle of Tennessee, you can imagine being the laughing stock and having to go to school Monday morning," he told the outlet."He couldn't face the humiliation that was waiting on him when he got to school on Monday, so he shot and killed himself."
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