Ontario Girl, 11, Chastised for Smoking, Kills Herself

An 11-year-old Ontario girl, fearing her father would ground her for a year for smoking, killed herself and left a suicide note saying: “I wanted to grow up and be somebody . . . but I messed up,” police said.

Donyelle McCall shot herself in the chest Wednesday with a .25-caliber pistol, Detective Pete Carrillo said today, and left the following note:

“Mom, I didn’t want to live to tell about this, so goodby. Come visit my funeral if I have one.

“--Donyelle McCall

“I died at 11 a.m.

“Dad would probably put me on a year’s restriction . . . . I’m sorry you don’t have a daughter anymore. I didn’t want to hurt you like this, but I didn’t want to go through it. I wanted to grow up and be somebody, but now that I’m dead I have to go down.

“I love you so much, but I messed up. I know that I have to live with it, but the way dad walked out of here I can’t get over it. I wish we could just forget about it, but it’s not that easy.”

Carrillo said the girl’s father had left for work after chastising her for smoking.

The girl had been at a neighbor’s house while her mother was at work Wednesday, but left, saying she was going home to take a nap, police said.

When the mother came home at about 11 a.m., she and the neighbor found the girl lying in her room, suffering from a single gunshot wound in the chest and the mother’s .25-caliber pistol beside her.