Daisy Coleman, an advocate for sexual assault victims, she was one of the teenage girls featured in the Netflix documentary “Audrie & Daisy” about multiple rape cases.
It has been reported that Daisy took her life in Lakewood, Colorado.
Melinda, Daisy’s mother was deeply worried about her daughter’s state of mind shortly before her suicide. The worried mum called the police to do a wellness check for a “possible suicidal party” at the residence.
According to John Romero, spokesperson for the Lakewood PD, he said officers responded by sending paramedics and agents trained in crisis intervention to Daisy’s apartment.
Daisy who was at the apartment around 4 PM that day when officers called to do the wellness check and she talked to the agents for over an hour, but she never said anything or gave any indication or suspicion that she wanted to harm herself.
She was medically cleared and there was no legal reason to hold her for mental health issues.
Unfortunately, police received another call around 8:30 PM from a female friend of Daisy’s, reporting that she had shot herself inside the same apartment. Cops say Daisy used a pistol to fire the fatal shot.
