A Vista Ridge High School senior who committed suicide earlier this month was not a victim of cyberbullying, according to a Colorado Springs police report.

Devin Scott died Aug. 7, one day after an altercation involving another student at school apparently escalated after the school day ended.

Police did not find evidence of harassment or cyberbullying prior to Aug. 6, the report said.

Accounts differ about what happened between the two boys on Aug. 6, just a few days into the school year at the high school in Falcon School District 49. A large group of students showed up at Scott’s home after school that day.

Around 5:30 p.m. Aug. 6, Scott called Vista Ridge counselor Chad Cosner from home, saying he was scared of the crowd of 30 to 50 kids outside the house and had tried to call police on the non-emergency line but was put on hold, the report said.

Cosner told Scott to call the school resource officer to have police come to the boy’s home, and Scott declined, Cosner told police in an interview days later, according to the police report. School resource officers are police officers assigned to a school.

Cosner stayed on the phone until the kids left the area around the house, and responded to Scott’s fears that kids might try to beat him up at school the next day by saying he would have school staff monitor the situation carefully. Cosner said Scott asked him not to make the report to staff because he didn’t want to turn it into a bigger situation, according to the police report.

Cosner told police he reported the incident to school security and administrators on Aug. 7. When Cosner spoke to Scott during the school day on Aug. 7, Scott responded that things were going well and did not mention any new problems.

Other school officials told police that Scott said he wanted to let the incident go, and did not request to speak to the police officer assigned to the school. That officer never met with Scott, and was not aware of the altercation.

Earlier this month, Scott’s mother said her son was targeted on Facebook for not fighting, and had closed his account several times during the summer because he didn’t like reading negative comments. When reached by phone on Wednesday, Angel Bradley said something should have been done by school officials or police on Aug. 6, when the teens showed up at her house targeting her son. Bullying doesn’t have to be ongoing, she said.

Vista Ridge High School uses Safe2Tell, a state-run hotline for students to anonymously report violent, threatening and suicidal behaviors by phone, Web and text, District 49 spokeswoman Stephanie Wurtz Meredith said.

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