PHOENIX—Before his death, 16-year-old Cade Keller said in three Instagram videos that he intended to take his own life, his family says.
The message wasn’t hidden. It wasn’t implied. It was stated directly—and still, it passed without the kind of urgency that might have changed what came next.
No intervention followed in time. No call that reached him before the moment had already closed in. Only the aftermath, and the painful hindsight of knowing the signs were there, but not acted on.
On the morning of March 12, 2022, Cade died by suicide.
He left behind two parents in grief, and a lingering question they cannot escape: what might have happened if someone had responded differently, sooner….