Walker Montgomery was a 17 year old boy that had everything going for him until he died by suicide on December 1st, 2022 after falling victim to a sex

extortion scheme on Instagram and now his dad Brian Montgomery is trying to prevent this tragedy from happening to other teens and so Brian is here today to share his tragic but

extremely important story and to help parents understand the signs to look for and how they can possibly prevent this from happening to their own families.

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Brian thanks so much for taking the time to join us I think I ran across your story on fox news dot com and I thought wow my audience which is mostly made up of moms and there are some dads out there too.

They need to know that this is going on so let's start from the beginning tell me about your son Walker and everything that has happened.

Yeah so I mean you know we always talk about this thing is it's almost like watching a movie you know it's like something you'd see on TV that you can't you never think it would happen to you just to kind of a normal family really I mean we our family has been blessed.

When I'm beyond measure just to be honest and really lived what I would think of as a fairy tale life I mean been given every blessing you can imagine and I mean our family was very normal Walker was very normal and we knew that but obviously when something like this happens you start questioning everything but yeah we have my wife and I have four kids two boys and two girls Carolinas are older she's 18 Walker was 16.

Being a younger brother is 13 and then we have a younger daughter in the area she's 11 so I mean our story is we raise our kids in church we raise our kids to respect adults to do everything you think that kids should be raised to do you know especially in a world today where that's a little more difficult than it used to be it seems especially my generation.

Yeah but you know to speak to Walker I mean Walker love football we love the outdoor some of the pictures you probably seen of some of those that you referenced we were on the interview with Fox we we farm we only in we work you know we hunt we fish Walker had a passion for football really that was a passion to develop you about a seventh grade year started really to evolve and something he was really serious about and so we obviously we're not going to be able to do that.

Obviously support him in that and he was very dedicated to that I mean I guess if you could describe Walker in the context of who he was he had a tremendous work ethic and he was always supportive of his friends and people in school and something we always loved about Walker is you know he was the kid that the parents and the teachers were always bragging on and proud to have him in their class and he was just he wasn't perfect obviously we wouldn't be here if he was but just nothing that would indicate anything like this was even from the beginning.

Because he has many kids back there who's probably having a problem or that Common

who we thought he was and of course we had a lot of questions. I'll get into what happened

in just a minute but we had a lot of questions about how this, what was going on

because obviously we didn't know what happened for a while after Walker's death

and this just happened to be some of the first of this past fall.

So all those questions and trying to understand what could have possibly driven him

to think this is the right answer.

Yes. When parents hear stories like this, when we come across these kinds of tragic stories,

I think the first natural reaction that people have is what you already mentioned.

Well, there must have been something else because I think what we're trying to do is

that could never happen to me, that could never happen to my kid.

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