Page 2 - Chan Ning News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

District attorney said no charging decisions have been made, and called any report that his office failed to act inaccurate lgbtq groups criticized that d.a. for refusing to support gay marriage the school district says it's not at liberty to make statements but counseling was provided for students. >> the ultimate message here is that the bullying, cyber bullying, has to stop. i mean, it's an epidemic now. >> reporter: being gay shouldn't be a death sentence josh smith wrote on facebook. >> we'll do everything possible to save the next kid and the next one and the next one. >> reporter: chann...

>> reporter: at a sunday morning vigil, music from billy ray cyrus, channing smith's mother remembering her 16-year-old. >> he could walk into a room and smile and light the whole room up. >> reporter: just over a week ago, channing, who had not publicly identified as lgbtq, sent sexually explicit text messages to a boy in his school. friends tell nbc news the boy sent screen shots to a female student and those spread across social media channing wrote on instagram, i really hate how i can't trust anyone because those i did were so fake. bye. within hours, he took his own life >> these message...

In this incident, the social media telephone, computer, is as lethal as any other weapon. >> yeah. i mean particularly with adolescents, the years are tough enough as it is, imagine this. i want to ask you, if i can, about the school's reaction here. because there was some things they did, sent out a note to parents, about these kinds of risks, et cetera but they did not call an assembly or get the students and parents to talk about this and how to move forward. are you disappointed with how the school responded here? >> i am beyond disappointed to say the least. they did not put an update on ...

Student outed him as bisexual, his private messages with another boy were posted for all to see on social media. joining us is josh smith, channing's older brother. josh, as a parent, i just want to say, my heart goes out to you as a parent and sibling. tell us about your brother, just tell us what folks should know about him? he seems like a remarkable kid. >> channing was the sweetest kid on earth. he was 6'3", 230 pounds. he was a big kid. music was his passion. he loved cars like corvettes and motorcycles. he loved his job that he recently got at burger king. he wanted to be able to make h...

Charged or even -- i'll get to that in a little bit, but anyway so the principal confiscated the signs that said justice for channing and some of the kids i think may have managed to get the signs back, but they had to cut off the justice for channing part. but the large majority of the kids did not get their signs back. the principal claimed that school ta was over with and didn't get a chance to return the signs. >> yeah. the school has a statement i should note and read from it here. a legal investigation is being conducted that involves some of our students. the school district is not at l...