(WFLA, CNN NEWSOURCE) With her family gathered by her side, Levon Holton-Teamer is having a hard time understanding how an app set up to allow people to share short messages and video, ended up playing a part in the death of her daughter, Tovonna Holton.
It happened Sunday afternoon, after she sent the 15-year-old to clean her room.
"I go to the bathroom I couldn't get in the bathroom, the bathroom light was off so I tried to get in and I looked down and I saw the puddle of blood," Holton-Teamer said.
Tovonna had taken a gun from her mother's purse and pulled the trigger.
"I tried to apply the pressure, the pressure to her head - I tried to save her," her mother said.
"Teenagers are very nasty to each other because they're so nervous and so forth," said psychiatrist Walter Afield.
Dr. Afield said, at his Tampa office, he's seen 4 or 5 young people recently, in a similar situation. Often times, its internet bullying as the root cause. "When they bully, well you can yell, you can shout, you can shoot back but when it comes on the internet so quickly and so instantly and all around. It gets very aggressive."
Tovanna's family believes a snap chat video, taken by a friend of the teen taking a shower, and shared with others, was enough to put her over the top.
"Everybody was out there talking about her and calling her names and everything and they said it went up on social media, whatever, Snapchat, I'd never heard of it before," said her aunt Angel Scott.
The Pasco County Sheriff's Office says it's investigating the death and reported bullying.
