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Kimberly Essex

4 and 10p.m. News Anchor
Kimberly Essex

National

'He was sunshine’: AL mother discusses teen son who took his life after depression, bullying

Updated: Apr. 24, 2019 at 10:41 AM EDT
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By Kimberly Essex
Less than a week after a 15-year-old Huntsville High student took his own life, his mother is speaking for the first time.

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