A high school junior kills himself after he was threatened by police and school administration of being charged with possessing and sharing child pornography.
The young man had an audio recording of a sexual encounter on his phone. The police never intended to charge the young man and the goal of the threat was to scare him straight.
Hours after being threatened he jumped off a building.
School disciplinary incident ends with a Naperville teen’s suicide: ‘They scared him to death’
On the last night of his life, Corey Walgren sat with his parents in the kitchen and talked about the colleges they would visit over spring break. At 16, Corey didn’t know what he wanted to study – maybe business, maybe astronomy – but he liked the idea of attending a Big Ten school.