- Ty was 11 years old. He was just a typical kid, typical boy, and he was being picked on for a little over two years by these kids at school, mainly one kid, but there were several that were involved in it. One day, he kind of finally had enough. He was sitting in the gymnasium with his best friend, and they were waiting on class to start, and this kid come up and pushed him, and Ty turned around and pushed him back. It's always the second guy that seems to get caught. Ty retaliated and he's the one that got caught. He was suspended for three days. His mama took him home. She had to go back to work that day. They were shorthanded, and so she told Ty to do his homework, told him to do his chores, told him that we were gonna talk about it when we got home that evening, and Laura came home at 2:38 PM on May 13th, 2010. She found out that our baby hadn't done his homework, that he didn't do his chores. Instead, Ty had killed himself on our bedroom floor. You know, I got a phone call that day. It was 2:39. Caller ID said that it was Laura, so I answered. You know, she was screaming. I mean, just screaming. I really couldn't even understand anything that she kept trying to tell me. She just screamed. I guess I finally screamed back at her. I told her she had to quit. She had to tell me what was going on. She finally managed to say, "He's dead. "He shot himself." Ever since that day, Laura and I, we've been traveling all over this country, actually all over the world, talking to families of kids that have done that same kind of thing. We want to try to make sure that no other baby goes through what ours did no other kid does what our son did, no other family lives our nightmare.