A lawsuit has been filed against the Coronado Unified School District by the family of a seventh-grade student who died by suicide after what his parents said were instances of cyberbullying.

The lawsuit claims the school district failed to support Gabriel Palacios, 13, a student at Coronado Middle School, while he faced rampant bullying from other students. The suit was filed after the CUSD denied a legal claim made in late September.

Palacios took his own life earlier in April, a few months after he inadvertently shared a video over social media that included nude images of himself, according to the lawsuit filed last week in San Diego Superior Court.

Though he quickly deleted the video — which attorneys say he recorded because he was "curious about a medical issue he was experiencing

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