15 Year Old Teen Commits Suicide Over Nude Snapchat Video Of Her

A 15-year-old Florida girl committed suicide
because bullies filmed a nude video of her and
posted it to Snapchat, her family said
Wednesday.
Tovonna Holton took a gun from her mother’s
purse and fatally shot herself in a bathroom
Sunday night at her family’s Tampa-area home,
her relatives told WFLA-TV. Tovonna complained
hours before her death about naked pictures her
friends took of her without her permission, the
family said.
“Tovonna would say, ‘Mommy, I owe them, I owe
them.'” her mother Levon Holton-Teamer told the
TV station. “I said, ‘What do you mean you owe
them?’ I couldn’t understand what was wrong.”
The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office is
investigating Holton’s death, but no suspects had
been arrested Thursday. Tovonna’s aunt Angel
Scott found out other teens had posted a nude
video of Tovonna on the social media app
Snapchat when Scott posted on Facebook about
her niece’s death, she said.
“I just said, ‘If anybody knows anything, what
happened? Have you heard of anything? Do you
know who these kids are who have the
pictures?’ I thought it was just pictures and then
the kids started inboxing me,” Scott told the TV
station. “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 3 something that afternoon.”
“I sent Tovonna to clean her room on Sunday
night but found her dead minutes later, Holton-
Teamer told WFLA.
“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,” she said, breaking into tears.