Showing posts with label hanging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hanging. Show all posts

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Camp Lejeune Marine honored for stopping suicide attempt

Marine's quick thinking saves another's life
By: TONY RAWLINGS
9 On Your Side
Published: December 14, 2012

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - A Camp Lejeune Marine's quick thinking saved another Marine on base this week.

Many look at Major, Matthew Reis as a hero. Reis was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps commendation medal for taking immediate action and exceptional situational awareness, after he helped save a Marine from committing suicide.

Reis says he was working in his office around two oclock tuesday morning when he heard a commotion outside and went to investigate.

"I found a Marine in a nearby barracks who seems to be dangling from the second floor," he said.
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Saturday, August 29, 2009

Public suicide in Pasco agonizes family, haunts stranger

Public suicide in Pasco agonizes family, haunts stranger
By Camille C. Spencer, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Sunday, August 30, 2009


NEW PORT RICHEY — David Miller was getting ready for bed on Aug. 14 when one of his mutts started barking.

Miller, in boxer shorts and flip flops, peered outside a front window at his house on Widgeon Way. He spotted a German shepherd yelping and opened his garage door.

The German shepherd ran from Miller's garage back to a pavilion across the street in River Ridge.

Miller, 41, went inside his house, put on a pair of pants and grabbed his glasses and cell phone. He drove toward the pavilion and shined his headlights toward it.

A man's body was hanging by the dog's black nylon leash, tied to a set of white rafters in the pavilion. His blue and white tennis shoes dangled to the ground. A beer can and a cell phone, still ringing, sat on a forest green picnic table nearby.
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Public suicide in Pasco agonizes family

Saturday, September 13, 2008

David Foster Wallace found dead at home

More tragedy: David Foster Wallace dead in Claremont
5:43 PM, September 13, 2008
On a day of sad news, more sad news, this time out of Claremont involving a beloved writer. Joel Rubin reports:
David Foster Wallace, the novelist, essayist and humorist best known for his 1997 tome "Infinite Jest," was found dead last night at his home in Claremont, according to the Claremont Police Department. He was 46. Jackie Morales, a records clerk at the Claremont Police Department, said Wallace's wife called police at 9:30 p.m. Friday saying she had returned home to find her husband had hanged himself.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Tyrell Dominique Taylor's Suicide prompts review of jails

Suicide prompts review of jails
Arundel officials examine methods to screen inmates
By Justin Fenton | Sun Reporter
July 29, 2008
Jail officials in Anne Arundel County said yesterday that they are reviewing how facilities screen inmates' mental health after a Towson man apparently killed himself in his cell over the weekend, the county's fourth inmate death this year.

Tyrell Dominique Taylor, 31, was found Saturday morning hanging from bedsheets affixed to a bunk bed. Taylor had been arrested two days earlier on robbery charges and was being held at the Jennifer Road detention centeron $1 million bail.

Before this year, the county jail system had not recorded an inmate suicide since 2003, said Robin Harting, superintendent of Anne Arundel's two detention facilities. But Taylor is the second inmate in seven months to kill himself and the fourth to die while in custody this year.

Harting said she believed the department's policies for screening inmates are sound, but that it is routine to conduct a review after an inmate's death.

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Monday, July 14, 2008

Gallows Hill claims another life

Salem man's death at city park appears to be suicide

By Bruno Matarazzo Jr.
Staff writer


SALEM — Police said the death of a 49-year-old local resident whose body was found yesterday at Gallows Hill Park appears to have been a suicide.

Police received a call at 4:23 p.m. after some kids driving all-terrain vehicles spotted a person hanging from a tree and told family members, who then called 911, police Lt. Paul Lemelin said last night.

Police went to the area near the city water tank and found the body of Edward Froncki, 49, of 29 Bow St., an address near the park.
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Saturday, February 23, 2008

Spc. Brenden Teetsell ended his life leaving questions and heartache

Soldier’s lies unravel after he kills himself
By Nancy Montgomery, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Sunday, February 24, 2008


HEIDELBERG, Germany — Spc. Brenden Teetsell stood out. He was 6-foot-6 — but it was more than that. He was talkative, enthusiastic, smart and likable.

But Teetsell, it turned out, was also deeply troubled.

The 20-year-old satellite operator with the 5th Signal Command hanged himself Feb. 7 in his Mannheim barracks. He used bedsheets and a stairwell to end his life, just after Criminal Investigation Command investigators had spent the morning questioning him for apparently impersonating an officer.

He had been claiming to be a captain and that he’d been shot in the leg in Iraq, pastors at a California church told CID after the pastors decided to check up on him.

That long-distance telephone call was to be the first thread in the rapid unraveling of Teetsell’s life.

“It went from zero to 60 that morning,” said Lt. Col. Jay Chapman, commander of the 72nd Expeditionary Signal Battalion.

“We didn’t see symptoms. We’re really upset with ourselves. Nobody would have considered him to be feeling the way he was inside.”

Teetsell, who enlisted in 2006, had never been to Iraq. He hurt his knee before his unit deployed last fall and was reassigned to a different unit.

His death comes at a time when Army officials are grappling with a record number of suicides, even as they’ve stepped up suicide prevention efforts.

One major contributor to the increase in soldier suicides is thought to be the disruption to intimate and family relationships caused by long, repeated deployments.

But Teetsell had never deployed. He did not appear depressed, Chapman said his commanders told him. He was not aware he was being investigated until the day he died, Chapman said.
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Teetsell was not deployed, not wounded in combat and seemed to have been troubled by many accounts. Why didn't anyone do anything when they seemed to have thougth he was troubled? Why was he able to get into the military if he was already troubled? There are so many questions to this sad story of a life ended too soon.

Friday, February 1, 2008

Lt. Terry Dugas Hanged Himself Near Sicily

Third death in a week shakes Sigonella
By Sandra Jontz, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Friday, February 2, 2008

A third death stunned an already shaken and grieving Navy community in Sigonella this week. The Navy on Friday identified a sailor found dead late Wednesday in a small town about an hour’s drive from Naval Air Station Sigonella, Sicily.

Lt. j.g. Terry Dugas, 37, who hanged himself in a semi-populated area in the small town of Sant’Alfio, was found by base security personnel who had been searching for him, said Lt. Jon Groveman, a base spokesman.
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