Content Warning: Suicide

The family of a 20-year old customer of Robinhood has sued the stock trading and investing company for wrongful death after he took his life last summer after believing a Robinhood notice that he had racked up huge losses on the app. 

The complaint states "'How was a 20-year-old with no income able to get assigned almost $1 million worth of leverage?' These were the last known written words of 20-year old Alex Kearns before he committed suicide by riding his bicycle into a railroad crossing and ran in front of an oncoming train."

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