Kenneth James Weishuhn Jr. of Primghar, Ia., was a 14-year-old freshman at South O’Brien Community School in nearby Paullina. About a month ago he came out as a gay teen to his family and local community. By all accounts he then was relentlessly bullied by some of his fellow male students both at school and online. In the wee hours of Sunday, April 15, Weishuhn’s family discovered that the boy had committed suicide. I sat down with Weishuhn’s older sister, Kayla, a sophomore, for an extensive talk about her brother and her account of the events in the last month. A video from that conversation leads off this storified roundup of local news about Weishuhn’s death, the bullying issue and more video from Kayla and her brother’s friends: