Black Lives Matter activist “journalist” Shaun King ruined Robert Cantrell’s life last year when he falsely accused the white Houston man of murdering a 7-year-old black girl out of racist hate.

Now Cantrell is dead, found hanging in his jail cell last week in an apparent suicide.

King hasn’t even bothered to mention it in any of his more than 300 tweets or retweets in the days since Cantrell’s death.

The ordeal started when 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes was shot and killed while riding in a car with her mother, LaPorsha Washington, and three sisters in Houston in late 2018, and Washington alleged the shooting was a hate crime by a white man in a red pickup truck.

King injected himself and “worked with Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez on the investigation,” according to The Daily Caller.

King offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to the killer’s arrest and promoted a sketch put together by a celebrity sketch artist. King later posted Cantrell’s mugshot on Twitter to dig up dirt on the “racist, violent asshole” he suspected for Barnes’ murder.

King told his massive online following Cantrell “was arrested in Houston hours after Jazmine was murdered on another violent crime spree.

“We’ve had 20 people call or email us and say he is a racist, violent asshole and always has been,” he wrote in a since deleted tweet. “Just tell me everything you know.”

The Daily Caller revealed King and Gonzalez continued to promote the narrative of a white killer with racist motivations despite a credible tip that a 20-year-old black man, Erick Black Jr., was the real culprit.

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Black, and his alleged accomplice Larry Woodruffe, who is also black, were eventually charged with capital murder in the Dec. 2018 shooting, according to ABC 13.

King simply deleted his tweets and continued business as usual, highlighting cases of violent police encounters and social justice, race-based politics, while Cantrell and his family were bombarded with hateful attacks from King’s followers.

Cantrell’s niece, Hailey Cantrell, read the threats from Facebook out loud for ABC7: “I hear, ‘Someone is going to rape, torture and murder the women and children in your family.’

“I just want everyone to back off,” she said. “The truth is out. It had nothing to do with us, nothing to do with my uncle at all.”

King has since turned his attention to campaigning for Socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, politicizing mass shootings, defending hate hoaxes and framing President Trump as a raging racist.

Cantrell, meanwhile, remained behind bars on unrelated charges of robbery and evading police, until he was found dead in his cell.

FOX 26 reports:

Authorities say Cantrell was found by MCTX Sheriff jail staff on the morning of July 23 at around 4:18 a.m. hanging from an apparent suicide attempt. Deputies say staff members immediately removed the ligature and began CPR and called for EMS. Conroe Fire EMTs and EMS staff also worked on Cantrell, but their attempts were unsuccessful.

Cantrell was no angel, but he didn’t kill Jazmine Barnes.

The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office allege they found him with over 60 different IDs, including driver’s licenses, social security cards, credit and debit cards, insurance cards, birth certificates and benefit cards.

The guys who police believe actually committed the murder, as part of a botched gang shooting, appeared before Judge Nikita Harmon in July, when she lowered their bonds to facilitate their release pending trial, ABC 13 reports.

“Woodruffe’s bond was lowered from $1 million down to $250,000, and he remains in jail,” the news site reported earlier this month. “Black was able to make bond and is now out after his bond was lowered to $150,000.”