Boy, 12, hanged himself after struggling with lockdown, not seeing his friends and breaking game monitor

4years ago

Aledo news, Texas news.

As he prepared for an unusual, ruined birthday party, a 12-year-old Texas boy took his own life by hanging on April 17.

A distraught dad, Brad Hunstable, said that Hayden wasn’t a depressed boy before the lockdown. He complained of not being able to meet his pals and missing classes. Recently, things got worse for him when he accidentally broke his game monitor, his only way of distraction.

“It’s not like summer. We have a social and emotional bubble that’s about to burst. I hope nobody ever feels this way, to see what I saw, and to feel this pain,” Brad said.

When he was found hanging in his bedroom by his younger sister, Hayden was three days away from celebrating his 13th birthday. A birthday that would have been incomplete without his friends.