Police say she not only encouraged him to kill himself via carbon monoxide poisoning, but that she even demanded that he get back in the truck when he had second thoughts.
A Massachusetts teen coldly urged a friend to kill himself last summer from carbon monoxide, and prosecutors say she even urged him to “get back in” the truck when he had second thoughts about it.
Michelle Carter, 18, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death of 18-year-old Conrad Roy III, who died in a parking lot back in July, a charge that Carter’s lawyer denies, according to a Boston Globe report.
Authorities searched the phones of both Carter and Roy, and found that she was in close contact with Roy hours before his death, but was texting friends saying that he was lost and she was worried about him, according to the report.
She wrote to one friend to say that she was “losing all hope that he’s even alive,” and shortly after wrote to Roy asking him to “let me know when you’re gonna do it,” police said.
Carter, a senior at King Philip High School, knew about Roy’s suicide plans, and not only encouraged Conrad to go through with it, but questioned him as to why he hadn’t done so already, prosecutors are arguing.
Police said the teen probably spoke on the phone with Roy until he died, but then she went back to texting friends as if nothing had happened.
Her lawyer, however, argues that the charges are overblown, and that his client was shocked by the allegations. He said Roy had voluntarily decided to kill himself, and that Carter had not influenced those plans. He said the state’s manslaughter law was being misused to punish her for not stopping what he says was a voluntary decision.
Roy’s grandfather said Friday that he believes Carter was responsible,a nd that she “even heard him gasping for air as he was dying,” according to the report.
Carter also angled for attention and sympathy and wanted to be seen as a tragic figures, authorities said, and even before his death she was reaching out to friends expressing guilt about not doing enough to save him.
Roy had graduated from high school in June with a 3.8 grade-point average, and had been accepted to Fitchburg State University.
Carter was indicted on Feb. 5, and was released on $2,500 bail. She has pleaded not guilty.
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