Daniel, of Staten Island, had been a student at Holy Angels Catholic Academy, and was due to start at Brooklyn’s Xaverian High School in the fall.
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“I gave up”, he wrote in a suicide note.
Daniel Fitzpatrick’s father poured his heart out in an emotional Facebook video Saturday as he thanked people for their support in the wake of the tragedy. “You have to try harder, Danny'”. “All I want is to hear him say “good morning dad” one more time, that way I can tell him ‘good morning, I love you, ‘” he said. Both parents took and passed drug tests as a result. In the letter, Fitzpatrick explained that the five students bullied him until he got into a fight, but that teachers at the school “didn’t do ANYTHING” when he reported the bullying. He meant to send it to the school to hold the teachers and principal accountable for allowing the continuous attacks to happen.But things didn’t pass for the tortured boy, who took to pen and paper as a recourse from his agony after nothing else had worked.
“I gave up”, Fitzpatrick wrote in his suicide letter that his parents shared exclusively with the New York Daily News”.
Fitzpatrick was a student at Holy Angels Catholic Academy. He took his own life Thursday evening. “Lots of friends, good grades and a great life, but I moved and went back and it was different”, Daniel wrote. Not get them in trouble even though they did trouble, I got in trouble instead because [the student] was mad at me because he believed I failed him. “There’s something wrong with the adults in authority positions when kids can’t go to them for help”.
He said: “They bullied me”. The teachers either they didn’t do anything!
“They didn’t do ANYTHING!” the boy pleaded in his letter. “I was out that’s all I wanted”, he said.
Fitzpatrick was found dead in his family’s attic by his 17-year-old sister late Thursday, after wrapping a belt around his neck and hanging himself, according to the Daily News. His body was found by one of his three sisters.
In the clip he says: “My son’s stories are out there for the world to see, and for the world to know the pain that he went through”.
The teen said his experience at the school had started out well, but became a nightmare once he began being taunted. “Do they have clothes in the house?'” the mom said.
“My son just wanted some friends”.
It was posted on Facebook by a friend of the Fitzpatrick family.
“Not the teachers, not nobody”, said the mom. For Daniel to be a grade behind while at Holy Angels, school officials suggested, might “damage his psyche”.
“My son is not supposed to be dead”, she said, dissolving into tears.
“No parent is supposed to bury their child”, she said. “No child should have to go through what my son went through”.
Funeral services has been scheduled for Monday and Tuesday at Harmon Funeral Home, and on Wednesday at Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church.
A GoFundMe page has been set up to help pay for funeral expenses.
The bullying complaints could not be confirmed by the Brooklyn/Queens Diocese on Friday, The New York Daily News reports.
After the fight that Danny said resulted in a fractured pinkie, he tried to tell the teachers. “It fell on deaf ears”.
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“My son was distraught”, Maureen said.
