Texting Suicide Case Study

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In L.A. there was a recent shooting. The killer is named Stephen Paddock and died at 64 by committing suicide, used to be an American Real Estate Investor when he shot at a large concert in Las Angeles. It is also known that he booked a hotel in Chicago overlooking the Lollapalooza. He sent his wife on a trip to see her family so he could stay and shoot at the concert. His wife denied knowing that he had been planning this. A woman named Michelle Carter gets 15 months in texting suicide case. She was found guilty on August 3rd, 2017 for texting to her boyfriend to kill himself. She had kept on asking him when he was going to do it, until he eventually did. Here is an example of one of the messages that she sent him:

Roy: "I'm overthinking"

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