Ten-year-old fifth-grader, Kevin Reese, Jr., has committed suicide after dealing with relentless bullying at his school.
Before his demise, Reese was a student of Robinson Elementary School in Houston.
His mum, Crystal Smith, said he was struggling due to the bullying he suffered at school but she said she never knew he would take it this far.
“I never thought he would go this far never. I’m still in disbelief and it’s taking me a while to actually accept the fact that this happened.” She said
According to his mum, Reese loved to draw and paint, adding that he had the biggest smile and was a seemingly happy kid on the surface.
She said: “Kevin was a goofy child. He’s my little goof troop, I called him.”
I just thought he was handling the situations.
They wrote on his tablet to kill yourself, ‘You don’t belong here.
When it got physical back in November, he came home crying because he didn’t fight back and one of the boys punched him several times coming from recess.
Then, on Jan. 21, he just had enough. He just had enough and he felt that he was backed into a corner.” She added
On the sad day Reese ended his life, His mom was out of town for work and his stepdad was on his way home from work while his 13-year-old sister and him got off the school bus.
It was his sister who found him and called their mom, screaming frantically.
“She was just screaming on the phone, and I didn’t understand and she screamed, ‘Kevin,” Crystal said.
Little Kevin committed suicide inside their Katy home by hanging himself in a closet.
“He hung himself in his closet. I told her to hang on with me, cut him down and while you’re cutting him down, call 911,” she added.
Crystal said she initially reached out to a school official to look into an incident where Kevin says a boy punched him. But the official said the other boy denied there had been a “physical fight.”
