Girl, 8, may have killed herself after seeing report of other girl’s suicide

Imani McCray, 8, hanged herself after parents put her on timeout

Dec 13, 2017

An 8-year-old girl in New Jersey killed herself on Sunday night, and investigators are still trying to determine what drove her to commit suicide.

Imani McCray had been sent to a timeout shortly before she hung herself, and family members worked hard to try to revive her before emergency responders arrived. The paramedics were able to find a faint pulse, but unfortunately, she was pronounced dead at the University Hospital in Newark.

–Colorado girl, 10, hangs herself after school bullying–

Investigators are not sure what role the story of a 10-year-old Colorado girl named Ashawnty Davis played in Imani’s suicide. Ashawnty’s story was all over the media after she killed herself as a result of bullying less than a week before Imani killed herself, but investigators do not believe that Imani was the victim of bullying.

It is not clear if this is a case of tragic playacting, a copycat suicide, or something else. Investigators are still looking into it.