20-year-old who repeatedly urged friend to commit suicide found guilty of involuntary manslaughter

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June 16, 2017 4:52 PM

Michelle Carter, who sent hundreds of texts to another teenager urging him to kill himself, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter.

Carter with her attorneys at the Bristol County Juvenile Court in Taunton, Massachusetts, on July 29.

A woman who sent hundreds of texts to another teenager urging him to kill himself was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter Friday by a Massachusetts judge.

Michelle Carter, 20, was charged with involuntary manslaughter after sending texts that the prosecution said encouraged 17-year-old Conrad Roy III to kill himself in 2014, when she was also 17.

Carter faces up to 20 years in prison.

Carter stood next to her attorney in tears as the judge read out her verdict to a full courthouse.

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