The Tulsa County district attorney said Thursday that no criminal charges would be brought in the case of Nex Benedict, a nonbinary teenager who died by suicide after a fight in an Oklahoma high school bathroom last month.

The district attorney, Republican Stephen Kunzweiler, said he didn’t believe charges were warranted after reviewing the findings of an Owasso Police Department investigation and the Oklahoma medical examiner’s report.

Kunzweiler’s three-page letter acknowledged Benedict’s death as “a tragedy,” but said that “all of the evidence gathered” showed that the fight that preceded the 16-year-old’s death “was an instance of mutual combat.”

He also revealed that Owasso police found a “suicide note” written by Benedict, but did not share further details, saying its contents were a personal matter for their family.

“Centrilift do not have a reasonable belief that the State of Oklahoma could sustain its burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt if charges were presented for prosecution,” he added.

An attorney for Benedict’s family told the Associated Press he didn’t expect them to comment on the district attorney’s Thursday letter.

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