TULSA, Oklahoma — Right now, Tulsa is going through a youth mental health crisis, and Macayla Brewster’s family hopes they can share her story to raise awareness.
Educate others about teenage suicide.
Makaira Brewster had a natural beauty that captivated those around her.
She loved making tik tok videos, playing volleyball and spending time with her sisters.
When a petite 12-year-old girl was five days away from her 13th birthday, the unthinkable happened.
Angela Brewster, McKayla’s mother, said, “She recently lost her grandmother three months before she passed away, and while she was grieving, she had fallen out a bit with her best friend.”
The beginning of such a falling out was a phone call from a boy.
“She got a call late at night and told me who it was. She and he were friends and I thought he was calling to express his condolences. .”
However, she says the boy had very different intentions.
“I looked it up and he asked her for nude pictures and she said no.” Her mother says the violent bullying began.
“I later found out he called her best friend at the time and told her he called and wanted to go out with her.”
Retaliation was swift in her so-called friend group.
“That’s why her little group of friends called her name and told her to kill herself and be a mean girl.”
Her mother says the heartache, loneliness and despair eventually became too much for Makayla and she took her own life on February 11, 2021.
As her family deals with the soul-crushing grief of losing a child, Angela wants others to know that your words matter and never forget them.
Makayla’s family has started a Facebook page called Justice for Makayla.
They emphasize how important it is for parents to talk to their children about kindness, because they shouldn’t have to lose their children.
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