WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. -- The family of a Florida teenager said the 15-year-old girl committed suicide after someone posted a nude video of her on Snapchat.
Tovonna Holton killed herself last week.
"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," Tovonna's mother Levon Holton-Teamer said. ""I tried to apply the pressure, the pressure to her head - I tried to save her."
Holton-Teamer said Tovonna used her mother's gun to kill herself hours after someone posted the nude video on Snapchat.
Her family said a friend took video of Tovonna in the shower and shared it on Snapchat.
They said they believed the immediate cyber-bullying that ensued pushed the teenager to take her life.
"Everybody was out there talking about her and calling her names," Tovonna aunt Angel Scott said. "They said it went up on social media, whatever, Snapchat, I'd never heard of it before."
Psychiatrist Dr. Walter Afield said these types of situations can escalate quickly on social media.
"Teenagers are very nasty to each other because they're so nervous and so forth," he said. "[Things] happen very quickly with teenagers, and you don't see it, you gotta know your kid, you gotta know who's sending what."
The Pasco Sheriff's Office continues to investigate both Tovonna's death and the reported bullying.
