There came a point where he told her he was getting out of the truck because he feared the suicide attempt was working. Prosecutors say that Roy was on the phone with Carter for 47 minutes while in his truck. Several of Michelle Carter’s classmates testified that Carter didn’t have many friends and pushed Roy to suicide to get more attention. In another text to a fellow student, she texted “I could’ve stopped him.” “He got out of the car … he was scared.” He did this because of the texts Michelle Carter sent him telling him to ‘kill himself.’Ĭarter admitted in texts that she took no action she knew the location of the truck and did not notify Roy’s family or emergency services.Īccording to testimony, on July 12, 2014, the day of Roy’s suicide, Carter texted a classmate, “He just called me and there was a loud noise like a motor … I heard moaning … I stayed on the phone for like 20 minutes and that’s all I heard. In July 2014, eighteen year-old Conrad Roy died of carbon monoxide poisoning after locking himself in his truck. Legally this is a grey area but why take the chance of someone taking their life because of you and why chance going to jail? Some states criminalize the act of convincing people to commit suicide. Michelle Carter’s conduct was morally reprehensible. Carter’s behavior was a crime that ended in a single phone call and the death of her then boyfriend Conrad Roy. How “Kill Yourself” Texts Resulted in a Death and a Conviction Today, she is a 24 year-old young woman who was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter by a Massachusetts judge, who described her behavior as “reckless.” She has since been released early from her sentence but her life, and the lives of many others, will never be the same. Seven years ago Michelle Carter, was a Taunton, Massachusetts teenager.
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