DISTURBING CONTENT. WARNING. DISCUSSION ABOUT SUICIDE, SEXUAL CONTENT.
Brian and Courtney Montgomery woke up on Dec. 1, 2022, to find their 16-year-old son Walker dead from suicide.
By all accounts, Walker was a normal child in a tight-knit family. The Montgomerys had sought a rural life, living on a farm in Lowndes County. They ate dinner as a family and the parents prayed with the children nightly before bed.
“To put it in perspective, I would have bet you that I was more likely to get struck by lightning on a clear day than Walker do this,” Brian Montgomery told a crowd of approximately 50 parents at Heritage Academy on Monday night.
“We knew it was wrong. We knew something happened that was terrible, but we had no idea why or how it happened to us,” Montgomery said.
Montgomery, who was joined by lawyer Lindsay Clemons, recounted his family’s devastation from the tragedy and his subsequent work in raising awareness about the type of sextortion that led to Walker taking his own life and — more generally — the dangers of unchecked technology in the hands of minors.