Twelve-year-old Cimarron Thomas was just like any other curious pre-teenager exploring the world around her.
On the verge of becoming a young woman, she spent hours in her room listening to Katy Perry and was enthralled by Netflix hit Stranger Things but, at the same time, held tight to her childhood passions of Harry Potter and elephants.
Close to her nine-year-old sister, she harboured dreams of becoming a murder detective and her teachers described bright, hard-working Cimarron as a favourite pupil.
It’s no surprise that when she killed herself with her father’s handgun at her home in West Virginia in May 2018, her devastated family had no idea why Cimarron would take her …