Levon
Holton-Teamer sent her 15-year-old daughter, a freshman at Wiregrass Ranch High
School in Wesley Chapel, to go clean her room on Sunday afternoon, minutes
later when the mom didn't hear any movement in her room, she went to look for
her daughter, Tovonna.
Holton-Teamer
said Wednesday:
“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. I tried to apply the
pressure, the pressure to her head. I tried to save her,”
Tovonna had
taken her mum's gun from her mother’s purse and shot herself in the head.
Her mum said
3 hours before her death, Tovonna had expressed concern over a nude picture her
friends had taken of her in the shower without her permission.
“Tovonna
would say, ‘Mommy, I owe them; I owe them’. I said, ‘What do you mean you owe
them?’ I couldn’t understand what was wrong,” Holton-Teamer said.
Hours after
Tovonna’s death, her aunt, Angel Scott, took to Facebook to find out why the
teenager had killed herself.
Scott
learned it was actually a nude video of the girl, taken while she was in the
shower not a photo.
“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”.
“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,” she said
The Pasco
County School District heard about the bullying complaints and have turned the
investigation over to the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office to continue to
investigate.
Tovonna’s
picture had been shared thousands of times on social media with the #stopbullying.
The teen’s family is now calling for justice.
The teen's
aunt, Angel Scott said:
“I want them
to pay, to feel what we feeling, even if their child is convicted or in trouble
they can go visit their child,” Scott said.
