Chengdu, China: The death of a high school student has exposed a credibility crisis for Chinese authorities

But the matter didn’t end there. Online, outcry was growing over the death of Lin Weiqi, a sophomore at the city’s No.49 High School in Chengdu, southwestern China.

On Sunday afternoon, which was Mother’s Day, Lin’s mother dropped him at school. An hour later, he fell to his death from a building on campus.

Lin’s mother said she wasn’t notified by the school until two hours later, when her son’s body was at a funeral parlor, or allowed on campus to speak with his classmates or teachers. And school officials initially rejected her request to check footage from security cameras.