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TWEETS: Ashley Duncan

A 17-YEAR-OLD girl took her own life following the break up of a relationship, it has been reported.

It is believed that Ashley Duncan, a popular high school student from Houston, Texas, shot herself dead just days after posting a picture of the fatal weapon on Twitter.

“I finally got a gun,” the teen wrote along with the chilling posting.

The tweet followed a series of increasingly dark posts on Tumblr and Twitter from the troubled teen, who, it is alleged, had recently broken up with her boyfriend.

“It's like God is torturing me by keeping me here.' She had written previously.

“The only thing that made me happy is gone…I'm miserable.”

CRY FOR HELP: A message posted on Ashley's Twitter page

In another post she went on: 'Life ain't worth the pain. if you know or have known what it feels like to want to die every minute second hour day week month year then you feel me.

“I might not struggle financially but I struggle emotionally and mentally and I think that's the worst struggle.

"So in asking why can't it be my choice to die now?… I’m miserable.”

“My heart is broken. I'm not picking up the pieces and I'm not gonna rely on anybody to put my heart back together. It's just that destroyed,” she added in a separate post.

It appears that her cries for help to her hundreds of online friends were ignored.

On Monday, the teenager walked to a reservoir near the intersection of Braes Forest Drive and Portal Drive and killed herself.

“I didn’t exactly pay attention to it because she would always play around. I never thought she was serious,” her friend Theresa Sosa said.

“After that, everybody should take everyone serious. Don’t ever underestimate what somebody is capable of doing.”

Ashley’s mother told FOX 26: “Parents should pay more attention to their kids, and kids should talk, not text.”