Brandy, a Texas City High School senior, shot herself in the chest in front of her parents and grandparents. Her last text to the family read, “I love you so much just remember that please and I’m so sorry for everything.”
“I was the first one here,” said Jacqueline Vela, Brandy’s older sister. “I heard someone crying so I ran upstairs and I looked in her room and she’s against the wall and she has a gun pointed at her chest and she’s just crying and crying and I’m like, ‘Brandy please don’t, Brandy no,”
Regardless of the family’s words to save her, nothing could help Brandy.
“I was in my parents’ room and I just heard the shot and my dad just yelled, ‘Help me, help me, help me,'” Jacqueline recalled.
Brandy shot herself in the chest, in front of her parents and grandparents and died in hospital.
The Vela family believes Brandy felt helpless after ‘relentless bullying’ from students at her school. Students at the school, would mock Brandy about her weight and tease her. They even made fake dating profiles with her phone number saying she’s giving out sex for free.
These incidents were brought to the attention of the school and the local police department but neither provided any assistance other than telling Brandy that she should change her phone number, which she did.
“I’m glad you got what you wanted. I hope this makes you happy,” Victor Vela, 19, said, talking directly to the bullies he said targeted his little sister.
No arrests have been made in this case of cyber-bullying, however, the family says they have a good idea of who is behind it.