His mother, Katrina Goss, alleged that Benz killed himself as a “result of a horrific act of a social media prank.” 
 
 On Thursday, Marquette Police told BuzzFeed News that prosecutors had authorized charges against a 13-year-old girl who was engaged in social media communication with Benz prior to his attempted suicide. Facebook 
 
 Benz was on life support after he tried to end his life on March 14, according to a GoFundMe page set up in his name by his family in Marquette, Michigan. The Marquette Police Department confirmed to The News on Thursday that it had learned Tysen was communicating with an unnamed juvenile before his suicide attempt. Mike Kohler of the Marquette Police Department confirmed there’s an investigation into Tysen’s death, but declined to comment directly on his mother’s allegations. "He was not a kid who was all sad and depressed and had all these problems," said Goss, 41. “He was in every sport, he was super social, he had tons of friends and every single person who knew him loved him … [He] was the last person who would choose this choice, which I think was an impulsive choice.” 
 
 William Saunders, superintendent of Marquette Area Public Schools, said in a statement that they had few details because the incident happened off of school grounds, but that officials were cooperating with investigators. “Many of us have followed Tysen’s mother on social media and agree wholeheartedly in her statements regarding the dangers of social media,” Saunders said. '” 
 
 More than $31,000 had been raised by Thursday in a GoFundMe campaign created days after the boy was hospitalized. “He was loved by everyone he knew and he will absolutely never be forgotten. The News was unable to reach the girl's family on Thursday.
– Life was good for Tysen Benz, an 11-year-old middle school student in Marquette, Mich., whom his mother, Katrina Goss, describes as being happy, athletic, and very social. Then he began dating a 13-year-old girl Goss calls mean and controlling, and suddenly, the unthinkable: Goss went to tuck her son into bed one night and found him in his closet, hanging from a belt, reports the New York Daily News. That was on March 14. This Tuesday, the boy died at the University of Michigan's hospital in Ann Arbor. Goss alleges the boy's girlfriend played a "horrific social media prank," telling her son she was going to kill herself and then writing from another friend's device that she was dead. Goss says that led her son to attempt suicide, and that she doesn't know why the alleged prank was pulled. Marquette Police have confirmed to BuzzFeed that a 13-year-old girl has just been charged with "malicious use and computer-using to commit a crime," but they did not address Goss' specific allegations. Goss writes on a GoFundMe page that has raised more than $30,000 that her son "impulsively chose to end his own life" as a result of the prank and urges families to "speak out, reach out and communicate with your children" about the dangers of social media. "I'm angry," Goss tells the New York Post. "Yeah, they're young and all that, but I feel like when you're 13, you're completely knowledgeable of your choices and you know right from wrong." (More kids ages 10 to 14 are now dying from suicide than in car accidents.)