Palm Harbor parents call for empathy, kindness after daughter dies by suicide days before start of senior year

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McKenna Brown, 16, was a star athlete with a bright future, but just days before the start of her senior year at East Lake High School she took her own life. Her parents are now sounding the alarm on the needs surrounding teenage mental health.

"She lit everything up when she walked in a room. Hilarious. Witty," Cheryl Brown, McKenna's mother, described."Anybody that she felt was feeling left out, she went over, said, ‘Hello,’" her dad said. "She just she brought everybody in and connected everybody. She was the glue that held a lot of groups together, including our family.""She was broken. She was hurt. She was alone.

"She made a couple mistakes," Hunter said, "It led to some physical, sexual, emotional abuse. She was blackmailed. She was bullied. She was betrayed by her best friend." "It's been total hell, and I know she's all around us still, but she's not here physically and that hurts," Cheryl said.

 

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An UNDATED story from Palm Harbor, Florida (1186 miles away) is newsworthy in Chicago because....?

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