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Wrongful Death Lawsuit in Texting Suicide Case Dismissed, But Details Not Revealed

A wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of a Mattapoisett man who killed himself after being urged by text to do so by a female Plainville teen-ager has been dismissed, but the mother isn't saying how the case was resolved. Lynn Roy, mother of Conrad Roy, filed a $4.2 million lawsuit against Michelle Carter in 2017, about three years after her son killed himself in a parking lot in Fairhaven after having second thoughts about it.

A wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of a Mattapoisett man who killed himself after being urged by text to do so by a female Plainville teen-ager has been dismissed, but the mother isn't saying how the case was resolved. Lynn Roy, mother of Conrad Roy, filed a $4.2 million lawsuit against Michelle Carter in 2017, about three years after her son killed himself in a parking lot in Fairhaven after having second thoughts about it.…