By Bond Robertson 
Family, friends and the Florida ice hockey community are in mourning after 16-year-old McKenna Brown committed suicide just days before starting her freshman year at East Lake High School.
The Florida Alliance Hockey Team, the ice hockey club played by Brown, wrote in memory words.
“We can’t imagine the sadness, anger, and fear everyone is feeling, there is no end to this story and that’s the problem,” he continues.
What we can do is share her story.
It’s now two months since McKenna’s death. In the past, the ice hockey club emphasized the importance of sharing McKenna’s story.
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They also called the hockey helmets “Mackina’s Kindness Matters.” The club states that many players across the United States have their own similarly marked helmets.
During the start of the season, NWHL player Madison Packer (31) spoke to clubs in the NGHL (National Girls Hockey League) about her attempted suicide and how she is now working to prevent suicide and bullying.
McKenna ice hockey club wrote in statement.
“We will never get over McKenna’s loss, but what we can do now and forever is to remember her and share her story.”
He claims that the daughter was bullied and harassed
In an interview with a TV station Fox 13 McKenna tells her parents that her daughter was bullied and harassed online at the time before she chose to commit suicide.
According to McKenna’s mother, three of her daughter’s classmates were behind the harassment. These three have now been suspended from the Lightning High School Hockey League.
– I was attacked. Her safety was attacked. Cheryl Brown says it was called many different things.
She went on to say that her daughter was bombarded with text messages saying things like, “I hope I never see you again.”
According to McKenna’s mother, her daughter sent a letter to a teammate in which she apologized for talking to her ex-boyfriend.
The situation is said to have escalated, and his colleague is said to have asked people on social media to cut off contact with McKenna.
One of her friends said the goal was to leave McKenna without a single friend, McKenna’s mother explains.
She believes it was these messages that pushed her daughter to the breaking point.
The Lightning High School Amateur Hockey League of Florida and USA Hockey have opened investigations into McKenna’s suicide.
Cheryl Brown hopes that the ongoing investigation will find the truth and that teens will understand the power and influence of their words.