it's the kind of summer conrad roy would have loved. conr conrad's aunt kim. >> tell us about him as he was growing up. >> he was kind of like the instigator in our family. he's the kid that never got in trouble. he'd start the trouble but he somehow got away with it. >> reporter: athletic? >> oh, yeah. he played baseball. he loved baseball. >> reporter: conrad, whose family calls him coco, excels, at least academically, in high school. he graduates in 2014 with good grades and test scores high enough to win him a free ride at a state college, but he's unsure whether to go off to school or join the family tugboat business. and did conrad like it? >> yeah. he loved it. he loved being on the water. he got his captain's license at the age of 18 which is pretty awesome. >> reporter: a life by the sea, with so much promise. but conrad is adrift. >> hi, this is conrad henry roy iii, reporting to you about what's going on through my mind, what's going on through my head the last few days. >> reporter: confiding deep emotional distress in privat

. >> woodruff: mike conrad is a teacher at roy oak high school, in detroit. thank you very much.turn now to a darker side of the response to the parkland loooting. hari sreenivasan es the anger, lies and conspiracy theories cropping up online. >> our entire nation is praying for the victims and their families. >> sreenivasan: the imrediate onse to the school shooting in florida was a wave of prayers and condolences from around the country. what quickly followed? a flood of allegations and conspiracy theories about the students calling for gun reform. >> i just know we are being fed something as phony as a three dollar bill. >> sreenivasan: right-wing outlets, like gateway pundit and infowars, and online trolls are promoting the false theory that some of the parkland teens are actually paid actors. the target of many of these attacks is stoneman douglas senior david hogg. he has been called an f.b.i. plant who was coached by his father, and a "crisis actor," after video surfaced of a california cbs story featuring hogg from august. > these people saying this is absolutely disturbi