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The death of a girl who died by what her parents call “bullycide” is raising questions about whether suicide can be attributed to bullying. Ashawnty Davis, a 10-year-old student at Sunrise Elementary in Aurora, Colo., died Wednesday after spending two weeks on life support at Children’s Hospital Colorado because she had hanged herself in a closet in her home. The girl’s mother, Latoshia Harris, told Denver local news affiliate KDVR that after being bullied, her daughter had been further harassed at school after a video of her confronting the female bully was posted to the video app Musical.ly. “I saw my daughter was scared,” Harris told the news station. Her father, Anthony Davis, added that the girl was “devastated” to discover the incident had been shared online.