The victim's brother, Joshua Smith, told WZTV he learned through Channing's friends that the sexually-explicit messages, which were between his younger brother and another teenage boy, were shared online Sunday night by the same boy and one of his female friends in what proved to be a fatal instance of cyberbullying. 23 after two fellow students posted screenshots of private messages that outed him as bisexual on Snapchat and Instagram, his relatives say.
A 16-year-old boy took his own life last week after two of his classmates shared his intimate messages on social media.Ĭhanning Smith, a junior student at Coffee County Central High School in Manchester, Tenn., died by suicide on Sept.
