Alexander Urtula and Inyoung You.Photo: Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office
“Don’t do this,” wrote21-year-old Inyoung Youto the boyfriend,22-year-old Alexander Urtula,according to excerpts of more than 75,000 messages exchanged between the couple during the two months before Urtula killed himself last May in a jump from the roof of a parking garage.
“I’m far away on a tall place and I’m not gonna be here for long,” Urtula wrote in one reply to You, who was trying to track his location after he disabled his phone’s GPS shortly before he died. “I’m leaving everyone.”
“ALEX,” You wrote back, resorting to all caps and some misspellings. “WHAT SRE YOU [expletive] DOING. IF U [expletive] LOVE ME STOP. IF U EVER [expletive] LOVED ME STOP.”
“STOP,” You wrote.
“You’ll have everything once I’m gone,” he answered.
“PLWASE STOp,” You texted next. “Talk to me. STOP. STOP. PLESEE. IM CRYING PLEASE. PICK UP. PLEASE . . . DON’T LEAVE ME LIKE THAT. IF U EVER LOVED ME STOP. IF YOU WANNA SHOW ME U LOVE ME STOP . . . please pick up . . . talk to me please.”
There was no further response.
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On the day Urtula died, You ultimately caught up with him and was on the parking garage roof with him when he jumped, according to the statement.
It seems to echo the Massachusetts case ofMichelle Carter, then 17, who used texts and phone calls to urge her 18-year-old boyfriend,Conrad Roy III, to go through with a plan to kill himself in 2014. After those texts were revealed, Carter was charged andfound guilty of involuntary manslaughterand sentenced to 15 months in jail.
Carter could be released as soon as February, more than two months early, as a result of “good time” credit earned for her exemplary participation in jail programs.
After losing her appeal in the state courts, Carter’s defense team appealed her case to the U.S. Supreme Court on First Amendment grounds and is waiting to learn whether it will be heard.
Rollins said in her statement that she believed You would willingly return to answer the criminal allegations filed against her in her current case.
If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), text “STRENGTH” to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 or go tosuicidepreventionlifeline.org.
If you are experiencing domestic violence, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, or go to thehotline.org. All calls are toll-free and confidential. The hotline is available 24/7 in more than 170 languages.
source: people.com
