Parents of 11-year-old best friends who took their lives say classmates bullied the girls 'for coming out'
Two months after Madissen shot herself with her father's gun at her North Dakota home, her best friend Sophia was found hanging at her home on the Spirit Lake Reservation
The heartbroken parents of two 11-year-old best friends have revealed that their daughters took their own lives within months of each other because they believe the two were bulled by their classmates. Reports state that the two used to call each other "girlfriend".
Madissen Foxx Paulsen died in December 2017 when she shot herself with her father's gun at her home in Devil's Lake, North Dakota. Two months after her death, her best friend Sophia Leaf-Abrahamson was found hanging at her home in St. Michael on the Spirit Lake Reservation, according to reports.