Elijah Heacock was a vibrant teen who made people smile. He “wasn’t depressed, he wasn’t sad, he wasn’t angry,” father John Burnett told CBS Saturday Morning.
But when Elijah received a threatening text with an A.I.-generated nude photo of himself demanding he pay $3,000 to keep it from being sent to friends and family, everything changed. He died by suicide shortly after receiving the message, CBS affiliate KFDA reported. Burnett and Elijah’s mother, Shannon Heacock, didn’t know what…
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