'They say it's suicide but it's 100% murder' Teen died three hours after being ‘sextorted' by 'godless demons'

Sextortion plots against minors have quintupled in recent years as groups like 764 target US teens

The afternoon that 15-year Bryce Tate was sextorted started off as a perfectly normal Thursday.

The Cross Lanes, W. Va., sophomore came home from the gym on November 6, scarfed down a plate of tacos prepared by his mom, then went outside to shoot hoops. At 4:37 p.m., he received a text message from a strange number.

Three hours later, Bryce was found in his dad’s man cave — dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

“They say it’s suicide, but in my book it is 100% murder,” Bryce’s father, Adam Tate, told me. “They’re godless demons, in my opinion. Just cowards, awful individuals, worse than criminals.”