Jay Edelson

A very smart kid, but almost the moment he went to online school, he started talking about being an FBI agent and then a doctor, and he went to a straight-A student.

He started seeming...

I guess what I noticed over those months was Adam used to be the kid that would always, you know, we'd talk sports, we'd talk fantasy football, girls, just light topics, like you might talk with your 14, 15-year-old son.

But in his final three, four months, he started talking politics, both sides of the aisle.

He was talking philosophy.

If I read this and that, I'd never, you know, it was like a kid you had to prepare for for a half hour if you're going to start chatting with him, which was a lot different.

But I took that as, you know, hey, progress.

He's a straight-A student.

He's seeming a little bit more serious.

But grades were great.

He was going to the gym every day.

But he was more isolated than he'd been, right?

He was online schooling, so he was kind of making his own hours.

We'd go to bed, and he'd still be up.

And so, you know, that scheduling was different.

And that was all, what, from October-ish until his death in April.

His progress was good in all of his classes.

So there was no reason for me to be concerned about anything.

They knew he was suicidal with a plan and it didn't do anything.

Yeah, you know, as I've been asked, I actually wasn't even, I knew he was using ChatGBT a little bit because he'd made mention of it.