Memphis, St. Louis, Detroit - all of them darkie hell-holes.

By Mike Bush

KSDK-"He was being literally harassed. His things were being taken from him. His money was being taken from him." Shanta Cretter is angry. She says her son DaShawn was being bullied in school.

"It was a Wednesday. I went to school to go on my field trip with my daughter and the little boy caught my son coming out of one of his classes and pushes him down the stairs," says Shanta.

She says things got so bad at Columbia Accelerated in the St. Louis School District that she actually lost two jobs because she was called there so often.

Then during Thanksgiving break last November, shortly after DaShawn mentioned that he never wanted to go back to his school, his older brother found him unconscious.

"And he said, 'Mama come here,'" says Shanta, now crying. "And I told him, 'I'm busy what is it?' And he said, 'Mama come here.' And I went into the room and the last thing I remember seeing my son with blue lips and blue finger tips."

10-year-old DaShawn went into a closet and hanged himself.

"And I just kept hoping and praying. He did not want to give up to the point he'd be ok," says Shanta through tears.

She says she blames the St. Louis School Board and the state of Missouri for DeShawn's death. She says kids who are bullied have no one to talk to because of cuts to budget and staff.

But Charles McCrary, the Chief Security Officer for St. Louis Schools, says he couldn't talk specifically about DaShawn's case. He does say that stopping bullies remains a priority for the district.

"This is something you do no matter what your budget is. This is part of our duties, part of our teachers duties our administrators duties. Is to be aware of that kind of behavior and take steps to address it immediately," says McCrary.

Shanta insists that's exactly what didn't happen in DaShawn's case.

"You shouldn't have to everyday go to school looking at a person that's going to pick on you," she says. "You should have somebody you can tell and something is going to be done about it."