What is known with certainty in Owasso, Okla., is that a 16-year-old is dead.
Nex Benedict collapsed the dayafter an altercation in a girls’ bathroom at the public high school they attended, a school where relatives say the 10th-grader, who used they/them pronouns, had been bullied for being nonbinary.
Beyond that are the unknowns, as well as soul-searching, pain and recriminations.