Tyler O'Neill

Tyler O'Neill
General Information
Gender:	Male
Age:	17 (Season 1)
Birthday:	approx. 1998
Death:	Monday night, September 28th, 2015 Cause: Decapitated (off-screen) by Kieran Wilcox
Hair Color:	Blonde
Eye Color:	Blue
Occupation:	High school student (formerly)
Relationships
Family:	Unnamed foster parents
Romances:	Nina Patterson † (Ex-Girlfriend)
Friends:	The Popular Crowd Emma Duval Brooke Maddox Riley Marra † Jake Fitzgerald † Will Belmont † Nina Patterson †
Enemies:	Lakewood Slasher Piper Shaw † Kieran Wilcox †
Other Information
Education:	George Washington High School (formerly)
Secrets:	His camera was used to record Audrey Jensen and Rachel Murray making out, whose footage was later uploaded online and went viral on YouTube (Exposed)
Series Information
First Appearance:	Pilot
Last Appearance:	Pilot
Status:	Deceased
Portrayed By:	Max Lloyd-Jones

“	Officer, she made me do it. She makes me do a lot of things.	”
–Tyler O’Neill to Nina Patterson, "Pilot"

Tyler O'Neill was a minor character in the television series, Scream. He was the tech-savvy ex-boyfriend of Nina Patterson, also attending George Washington High School. Initially, he was considered a suspect in the 2015 Second Lakewood Murders until it was later revealed that he was a victim of the killings.

Tyler is the first victim of the Second Lakewood Murders (2015-2016) committed 21 years after the first, the fifth male victim of the Lakewood Slasher and overall is the sixth victim of the Lakewood Murders that spanned over two decades, from the first and second season.

He is portrayed by Max Lloyd-Jones.

Description

Tyler was the bad boy, tech-savvy high-school genius at George Washington High. On the night he helped his ex-girlfriend Nina Patterson to upload an untraceable video of Audrey Jensen and Rachel Murray making out. After that night Tyler brings Nina home on the night him and Nina got murdered.

Biography

Early Life

Not much is known about Tyler's early life except that he was born to unnamed parents in early to mid 1998 (whether or not in Lakewood, Louisiana). Growing up, Tyler would be taken in by unnamed foster parents, due to either his parents deaths or not being able to take care for him, thus being placed in the foster care system (due to it being mentioned later on in his file by the town sheriff and other characters). Tyler attended the same public schools, and later high school, as the Popular Crowd, which consisted of: his popular ex-girlfriend and mean girl Nina Patterson, jocks Jake Fitzgerald and Will Belmont, the mayor's daughter Brooke Maddox, and Emma Duval as the coroners daughter, as well as Riley Marra. He would also attend high school alongside Audrey Jensen, Noah Foster, Grayson Pfeiffer, Haley Meyers, and Zoë Vaughn, with the former being who under Nina's command aided in recording her and Audrey's secret girlfriend, Rachel Murray, during his junior year in September 2015.

The Second Lakewood Murders (2015)

On Monday night, September 28th, 2015, a 17-year old Tyler would be contacted by his ex-girlfriend Nina in order to use his video camera to non-consensually record and expose 17 year old Audrey and her girlfriend, Rachel, making out in Audrey's car in order to humiliate and out them, due to Nina being Audrey's tormenter and bully.

It's possible that Tyler himself was present and the one who recorded the video (of which is a crime and Tyler could've potential faced lawsuits from either Audrey or Rachel, due to infringing on privacy and distribution) or that Nina solely borrowed his camera and drove Nina around while she recorded, and then Tyler helped her by uploading it on YouTube via dummy accounts, where it would go viral due to it being shared by the student body and on the social media platform, Chripster (parody of Twitter)

Heads Up: Tyler would become the infamous 1st victim (and male) in the 2015-2016 Lakewood Murders to the Lakewood Slasher (sixth victim overall, first murdered since the 1994 murders) whose brutal death in the franchise, despite off-screen, would follow his friends.

Following the footage being uploaded, Tyler would drive Nina to her home at around 10PM and who would try to make a move and celebrate the victory by going inside and Nina making him a drink, in order to woo and sleep with her, to which Nina declines his invitation, stating she only needed him for his tech savvy tonight, not for what's in his pants, thus using him. Nina leaves unbothered and walks up to the front door of his house while a defeated Tyler watches on.

Death

Monday, September 28th, 2015

Shortly after Tyler dropped Nina off at her house, the killer had decapitated him off-screen. Nina starts receiving text messages from who she assumed was Tyler, which was the killer actually using his phone. When Nina goes in the hot tub, she does not notice the incoming text she gets that reads "Heads up", then the Lakewood Slasher throws Tyler's severed head in the hot tub.

Tyler's body and decapitated head, alongside his Camaro of which he was driving, would be removed from the crime scene at Nina's house, with his decapitated head being stumbled by Emma, Noah, and Audrey while exploring the killer's lair at the abandoned Lakewood General hospital. Before this, his body would then be used to stage a fake car crash off a bridge, after Riley's murder on October 6th, due to the killer using his car and texting Riley in order to bring suspicion on him as a suspect, which was called off after his decapitated head was discovered by Emma, Noah and Audrey.

Appearances (4/24)

Season 1 (4/10)

• Pilot
• Wanna Play a Game? ^(Photo)
• Aftermath ^(Corpse)
• Exposed ^(Photo)

Quotes

• "Officer, she made me do it. She makes me do a lot of things."
• "Wow, you are a mean drunk tonight."
• "So then, why don't you make me a drink while we break the Internet? I know your parents are still out of town".

Trivia

• Tyler is the first character to be killed in the TV series off-screen and the first to be murdered overall.
• Tyler is also the first male character to be killed in the 2015-2016 Lakewood Murders (Second Lakewood Murders), following Dara Alden in 1994 (original Lakewood Murders).
  • He would be the sixth in the Lakewood Murders trend, following the five victims in the 1994 (first) Lakewood Murders.
• Like Casey Becker's boyfriend, Steven Orth, he was killed to prove the Lakewood Slasher's intents.
• He and Nina are the first two characters to be killed on the TV series, much like in the films seeing as they are coupled up but apart (ironically their characters were exes) when they die much like:
  • Casey Becker and Steven Orth in Scream
  • Maureen Evans and Phil Stevens in Scream 2
  • Cotton Weary and Christine Hamilton in Scream 3, respectively.
  • Tyler is also in the tradition in that he is first victim and in that the men are picked off first rather than the women.
• Tyler was the main suspect in Nina's murder up until Emma, Audrey, and Noah found his mutilated head, his name was then cleared and everyone, including Nina's parents, realized that he wasn't the killer, but was a another victim of the killer himself/herself.
  • This aspect would be used similarly for the suspecting of Shane in Season 3. Both characters being supposedly fostered (despite Tyler actually) and suspected of being the killer, while Tyler was suspected after his death, unlike Shane.
• The Lakewood Slasher also planted evidence of Tyler's fingerprints on a glass cup in Nina's kitchen, as to implicate him in the murder in order to throw off suspicion.
• He was apparently an orphan, as it is mentioned that he lived with his foster parents.
• He is the first character in the franchise to be dismembered in some fashion.
  • Next would be Seth Branson in Season 2, when the Lakewood Slasher (Kieran Wilcox) severs his right hand.
  • In the sixth film, Greg Bruckner was decapitated by Ghostface (Wayne Bailey) and stuffed in fridge, making him the first in the films. Like Tyler he was killed off-screen.