McKenna Brown, of Pinellas County, killed herself in August after she was ruthlessly bullied and harassed online by girls she had been friends with for years.
Just five days after the events unfolded, the 16-year-old took her own life. Unearthed texts from her revealed her barrage of abuse, as her teammates tried to “cancel” and shame her for talking to one of her ex.
Three players, who were not identified, were accused of cyberbullying and have now been suspended from the Lightning High School Hockey League.
McKenna’s devastated parents, Cheryl and Hunter Brown, say her daughter was severely harassed by the girls, with whom she had been a few days before her death.
Despite her actions, the girls attended McKenna’s funeral, but did not speak to her parents. They were disturbed by the presence of the alleged executioners.
McKenna and the girls went to the beach when they ran into one of her ex-boyfriends, whom the friend had dated two years earlier.
The boy reportedly began “flirting” with McKenna and the student-athlete asked her friend if she was okay to talk to him.
Initially, she was told he was fine, her mother said.
The next night, the group went to the driveway, where the doorman hung out with the boy. But the other girl began to get jealous, McKenna’s parents told Dr. Phil.
After dropping McKenna off at her house, the girl, who had recently gotten her driver’s license, began receiving a “storm of text messages and phone calls from the girl,” the Browns told Dr. Phil.
McKenna had asked the only friend/teammate if she minded talking to her ex-boyfriend of two years earlier, and she said she was fine.
“She then realized a few days later that she wasn’t cool with a friend based on how she retaliated,” Cheryl told Fox 13.
McKenna apologized to her friend for “crossing the line” and spent the day discussing hostility with her mother, who called her daughter her “best friend of hers.”
The family went out to dinner later that night and McKenna noticed her friends were all together, after seeing their location via Snapchat’s map feature.
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That was the moment her ‘face turned white,’ her mother said.
After watching a movie together, the family split up in their own house and decided to go to church the next morning.
When Cheryl entered her daughter’s room the next morning before service, she found McKenna “face down” on the floor.
‘I thought she was sleeping. I went over to her and went to turn her over and she was cold and stiff and I knew she was gone,” the heartbroken mother told Dr. Phil.
In her daughter’s ‘reflexive’ suicide note, she forgot to name any of her alleged stalkers, but her mother said she ‘knew she had something to do with these girls’.
I had no idea, to what extent, so much of what we learned and put together later came later,” Cheryl said on the show.
Her letter reportedly told her parents that she felt ‘safe’ at home and she loved her family, but that she ‘lacked a sense of belonging’.
The alleged harassers reportedly shared “really personal information” about McKenna, including that she had been raped at the age of 14, with other teammates and friends to “humiliate” and shame her.
Other text messages, obtained by Fox 13, showed the girl texting McKenna: “You have done us all awful wrong” and “I hope I never see you again.”
She was also sent long messages and she was bombarded by other girls, including a message that “they wanted to leave her without a single friend”.
High school students even took to social media to encourage others to ‘cancel’ McKenna.
‘How do you do that to someone?’ her mother asked Fox 13.
The girl who had done most of the bullying even showed up to McKenna’s funeral and Cheryl thinks the hockey player “has no regrets.”
“[The stalker] had mentioned to one of her friends, ‘She got what she deserved.’”
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