[kcvl]

st one week before his death, McCarrel attended the NAACP Image Awards in California, where he was recognized for his activism. His mother proudly posted an image of the two on the red carpet on her Facebook page.

It's likely that McCarrell was suffering from a mental illness, according to Jason Hershberger, chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center.

[RegulatorCountry]

Regardless of what anyone thinks of the cause he supported, that photo is just so sad, a mother’s pride, the high point of his life to date, and then he killed himself. Crashed from manic stage into deep depression.