A 16-year-old schoolgirl who was apparently a victim of bullying posted a Facebook message asking her friends if anyone would cry if she died – just hours before committing suicide, it today emerged.
Amber Cornwell posted the chilling words, ‘If I die tonight, would anyone cry?’, on the social network site while sitting in her bedroom in Henderson County, North Carolina, on December 21.
The following morning, the East Henderson High School student was found hanged in her closet by her distraught parents, Kim and Alan Cornwell. Tragically, she was pronounced dead at the scene.
Now, Amber’s friends and family have claimed bullying was responsible for the death of the teen, who had returned home in a ‘happy’ mood after a date with her new boyfriend just hours earlier.
‘They [the bullies] were really mean, they’d say stuff to her face, behind her back,’ one of the student’s friends, Stephanie Hernandez, told ABC 13. ‘They’d message her on Facebook.’
Another friend, Sierra Crochet, added: ‘I’ve been crying for days now. They were just calling her names. And called her names and said she had no future and had nothing going for her.’