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Staten Island Advance
By Mira Wassef | mwassef@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The father of the 13-year-old West Brighton boy who committed suicide posted an emotional video where he calls the kids who bullied his son “monsters.”
“They’re monsters.. disgusting little monsters,” Daniel Fitzpatrick says in the nearly 20 minute Facebook video. “I hope the memory of what you’ve done to my son is burned in your brain for the rest of your life and you suffer as much as he has suffered.”
“Danny was a kind, gentle, little soul,” he said. “He didn’t have a mean bone in his body.”
On Thursday, the younger Daniel Fitzpatrick hanged himself in the attic of his Davis Avenue home, his family told the Daily News. Daniel’s older sister found him dead around 5:30 p.m., the report said.
In a letter penned last month, Daniel detailed his struggle with bullying at the Holy Angels Catholic Academy in Brooklyn.
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