thomas bevington
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my son committed suicide last December. the 3 room mates that live in the same house as my son had been terrorizing and assaulting him for several weeks up until he died 12/13/18. the tormentors/ abusers would often say things to my son with reference to his being bisexual they said things like 'why don't you just kill yourself F-N expletive referring to him being bisexual' they also would threaten him with violence and say to him 'when you leave for work were going to trash your room and take what we want' there was always drinking and illegal drug use at the house and the room mates would take advantage of my son 'borrow money and never pay it back' among other things. To be clear I know my son had been depressed and at times thought about suicide but when we talked about iy last summer he promised that he wouldn't ever do that and he would live for his sister and myself. the police are waiting for a toxicology report before they can close or further investigate. the day before he died he had been drinking heavily along with the other room mates and friends that would come over. My son had been secretly video recording the threats of violence and he had also been looking/ asking his friends on facebook as well as posting to craigslist to find a safe place to stay. he also knew that me and my girlfriend would be coming to live there with him in january. I have screen shots of conversations he had telling his friends what was happening to him i also have videos he took with his phone. everything that i have gathered from the day that i found out about his death until now Ive sent to the detective working the case. to basically break it down this what happened 1 the room mates knew he thought about suicide. 2 they knew he was bisexual and they would bash/ bully him 3 they had physically and psychologically abused him. 4 he was the only one working and they took advantage of him. 5 they made his life hell to the point he was trying to find another plac e to liv e. 6 they all had been drinking and they knew he had taken pills 3 bottles i was told and a couple people had seen several pills in his vomit. the question of what should we do call 911? had been said by one of them and a response of its not our problem and he would be upset to have a emergency room bill. nobody called 911 or let anybody else police, or others that would intervene and get him help /take him to the hospital. they all knew what he was attempting while he was drunk and had been for several weeks terrorized and bullied by them and they thought him less of a person or not worthy of life. they let him die and two days later called police after he had been dead for 2 days alone in his room. the police said that because he hadn't called and pressed charge's or got a restraining order that nothing could be done. The way I see it is for one this has to be a hate crime and terrorist threatening as well as negligence and murder because they bullied and physically abused him . he wou ldn't have done this if they had left him alone. this happened in Arkansas. is there a crime in this tragedy?