Double Reverse Bullycide!

Hunter Perkins, 16, drew some funny pictures of his gay friend and when he got in trouble for it, he “an heroed” himself.

From the Lowellsun here:

Hunter Perkins had been labeled a bully.

The Virginia boy, 16, a third-year student at the prestigious and private Groton School, was accused, along with two other boys, of harassing another student about his sexuality, according to his father, Walter Perkins. His father said he was told to come get Hunter immediately.

Within a week, Hunter Perkins would be dead.

Hunter’s father, Walter Perkins, of Chantilly, Va., said he drove 10 hours overnight to pick up his son Oct. 6 from the school’s infirmary.

The next five days would be hell for the Perkins family. Walter Perkins said he was angry with his son and the damage he had done to his future by allegedly joining with two other boys to create demeaning comics about another student.

Walter Perkins said he was in his bedroom, calling his daughter so that the family could get together to figure out what to do. (His wife died nine years ago.) “There was the crack of a gunshot in the basement,” Walter Perkins said.

The rest of the article documents how Walter Perkins blames the school for ejecting his son for bullying. Hunter’s Mom dying and being shipped off to Massachusetts to boarding school had nothing to do with it. And to have paid 50 Thousand dollars for the privilege of going to such a great school like Groton only to be kicked out a few weeks into the semester? Nah, Walter’s disappointment in his son couldn’t have been a contributing factor.