Suicide of Kentucky teen investigated as financial sextortion

Courtesy Shanno HeacockWKKUEli Heacock,16, died by suicide on Feb. 28. The events leading up to his death are being investigated as financial sextortion.
A warning to readers that this story contains discussions of suicide and sensitive sexual subject matter.

In southern Kentucky, the Barren County community is grieving the unthinkable. Local teenager Eli Heacock died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound last month and investigators are looking into what role a financial sextortion scheme played in the death.