The Rice County Sheriff’s workplace in Minnesota has confirmed the dying of SaveAFox YouTuber Mikayla Raines. She was 29.
The workplace responded to a request from Us Weekly for investigative data round Raines’ dying in a letter on Friday, June 27, saying information associated to the matter are “energetic prison investigative information.” It couldn’t supply a timeline for when extra particulars might be launched.
An obituary posted to legacy.com mentioned Raines died on Saturday, June 21.
Raines’ husband, Ethan, shared the information on Monday, June 23, that his spouse died by suicide after experiencing on-line bullying. In a video posted to SaveAFox Rescue’s YouTube channel, he cited “ridiculous claims and rumors” being unfold about her on-line.
“She couldn’t bear what she was feeling any longer and she or he ended her life,” Ethan mentioned. “It breaks my coronary heart that somebody who’s selfless and devoted her life to animals may have a lot negativity pointed at her.”
He continued, “And to these of you that pushed her to this, each certainly one of you that had been chargeable for making her really feel this fashion, I want you needed to see me discover her and I want you needed to watch me carry out CPR on her for quarter-hour till the primary responders arrived. And I want you needed to watch helplessly as paramedics tried to revive her lifeless physique. And I want you needed to hear the screams and the cries of her household.”

Mikayla’s obituary additionally detailed her work, saying she started serving to wildlife, particularly foxes, in her late teenagers and grew her following on social media as she started to seek out success. When she was 20, she fashioned SaveAFox rescue, a non-profit that “rescued foxes from fur farms, helped rehabilitate these with accidents or start defects, and adopted foxes to different services with related licenses.”
Within the caption to the video, additionally shared through the SaveAFox Instagram web page, Ethan mentioned he would do his finest to proceed his late spouse’s work.
“Mikayla was actually probably the most wonderful and provoking particular person I’ve ever recognized, and never having her right here makes all the pieces really feel empty,” he wrote. “I really feel damaged. However I’ll proceed her dream, and I hope to have your help going ahead in order that we will do good in her identify.”
The SaveAFox YouTube page is at present operating a fundraiser to save lots of greater than 500 foxes from a fur farm. As of this writing, it has raised over $146,000, with a objective of reaching $700,000.
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