Texas Parents Heartbroken After 9-year-old Dies In Social Media ‘blackout’ Challenge: ‘it Was Just The Three Of Us’

A Texas family is reeling aft a nine-year-old woman died attempting a viral "blackout challenge," according to a report.

On February 3, JackLynn Blackwell choked herself to death. She was successful her family's backyard, and had conscionable vanished showing her grandma a societal media video of personification other trying nan challenge.

"My mom told maine that JackLynn had shown her a video earlier of a feline doing that pinch nan cord, my mom told her, 'Don't you ever do that,'" JackLynn's father, Curtis Blackwell, told CBS News.

He recalled nan segment connected nan time his girl died. He knew thing was amiss nan greeting it happened because nan backyard was unusually quiet.

“Then I saw her benignant of astir nan area that goes to nan carport, saw her hair. I said, ‘JackLynn!’ I thought she was bending complete playing ’cause she was ever successful that area playing, but she wasn’t playing," he told nan broadcaster.

Blackwell went extracurricular to spot what his girl was doing and recovered her unconscious and pinch a cord wrapped astir her cervix

“I tried to do everything I could to prevention her. I sewage her disconnected nan cord. I tried to springiness her CPR until nan first responders sewage there. It was nan astir terrifying, shocking point I’ve ever seen,” he said.

He described nan calamity arsenic "senseless."

"It was conscionable nan 3 of us, 3 amigos, we did everything together," he told CBS News. "Karaoke. She loved karaoke; she could do it each day."

Her parents said JackLynn's dream was to go a singer.

JackLynn's parents are now informing families to support their eyes unfastened for akin dangerous, viral trends dispersed connected apps for illustration TikTok.

“It’s not a joke, it’s not a game, it’s life and death," Blackwell said.

Videos of group choking themselves to execute a emotion of euphoria person been circulating connected societal media for years. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has documented 80 instances of a kid dying arsenic a consequence of nan blackout challenge.

"Most of nan kids are for illustration 9 years aged to 14 years old. A batch of kids her age, their brains aren't afloat developed, and they are very easy influenced," Blackwell said.

He besides thinks TikTok and different societal media companies that supply a level for viral inclination videos should beryllium held accountable erstwhile a kid dies arsenic a result.

“There’s excessively galore of these kids mislaid for these companies not to beryllium held accountable successful my eyes," he said.