This is so infuriating.

(CNN)Isabella “Izzy” Tichenor, a 10-year-old Black and autistic student in Utah, died by suicide last Saturday after allegedly being bullied by classmates and her family’s complaints were ignored, the family’s lawyer tells CNN.

The tragedy comes just weeks after the Justice Department publicly detailed a disturbing pattern where Black and Asian American students at the Davis School District in Farmington, Utah, were harassed for years, and officials deliberately ignored complaints from parents and students. The DOJ detailed the pattern in a report and settlement agreement released in October. The agency had been investigating the school district since July 2019.

“Izzy was a happy child. She was a happy little girl, she did well in school … All she wanted was to be connected with family and friends,” attorney Tyler Ayres tells CNN ahead of the private funeral planned for Saturday morning.

Please note this girl killed herself mere days after the Davis School District and the Department of Justice came to a settlement over harassment in the district.

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I hated school because I got bullied—it’s only as an older adult that I realize how much I got bullied. My heart is breaking that a little girl was being bullied so much she thought death would be better. I want to slug people but I know I can’t.