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UPDATED: Friday, June 10, 8 AM EST

A friend of the 15-year-old girl, who committed suicide after a nude Snapchat video surfaced online, accused the teen’s ex-boyfriend of posting the images that reportedly pushed her to take her life after bullying, according to The Daily Beast.

The friend, Christian Coyle-Watts, said the video was released after Tovonna Holton and her ex had a series of fights.

“He did it just because he knew he could, and it would hurt her feelings,” she told the news outlet.

Tovonna and her boyfriend reportedly broke up on Sunday morning, just hours before she took her life, writes The Daily Beast.

A spokesman for the Paso County Florida’s Sheriff’s office told the news outlet he was unaware of the allegations.

SOURCE: The Daily Beast


Tovonna Holton, a 15-year-old freshman at Wiregrass Ranch High School in Wesley Chapel in Florida’s Tampa Bay Area, was visibly distraught on Sunday when she told her mom that classmates posted a nude Snapchat video of her online.

“Tovonna would say, ‘Mommy, I owe them; I owe them’. I said, ‘What do you mean you owe them?’ I couldn’t understand what was wrong,” Levon Holton-Teamer, Tovonna’s mother, told WFLA.

Holton-Teamer sent Tovonna to clean her room. Moments after their conversation, she discovered a heart-wrenching scene in the bathroom.

“I go to the bathroom; I couldn’t get in the bathroom. The bathroom light was off so I tried to get in and I looked down and I saw the puddle of blood. I tried to apply the pressure, the pressure to her head. I tried to save her,” the sobbing mom told the television news outlet.

Tovonna had stolen a gun from her mother’s purse to end her life, the report says. Hours later, family and friends searched for answers in their grief.

Angel Scott, Tovonna’s aunt, went to Facebook, questioning Tovonna’s peers about the photos that caused the young girl to take her life so suddenly. Her classmates answered back, flooding Scott’s inbox with video images of Tovonna in the shower.

“Everybody was out there talking about her and calling her names and they said it went up on social media, Snapchat. I’d never heard of that before about three something that afternoon,” Scott said.

Three hours after the posts went up on social media, Tovonna was dead.

The Pasco County School District launched an investigation, calling in the Paso County Sheriff’s Department. On Monday and Tuesday, Tovonna’s high school offered grief services for students and faculty.

A social media campaign has also launched with Tovonna’s photo and the hashtag #stopbullying. Police are still investigating the teen’s death.

DoSomething.org, an organization for youth that promotes social change, reports that 43 percent of teens experience cyber bullying.

SOURCES: WFLADoSomething.org | PHOTO CREDIT: Getty, Twitter

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