Students struggle to understand school suicide
Students and parents struggling to understand what happened inside Davidson Middle School in Southgate
ON A CHASE THROUGH THE STREETS OF WARREN. HOW IT ALL CAME TO A CRASHING END. AND STUDENTS IN SOUTHGATE STUNNED, LEAVING THEIR SCHOOL IN TEARS. WE ALL HEARD THAT THERE WAS A LOCKDOWN AND WE ALL WENT IN COMPLETE SHOCK. Carmen: AN EIGHTH-GRADER TAKES HIS OWN LIFE INSIDE A CAMPUS BATHROOM. Steve: TOO MUCH FOR CHILDREN TO TRY TO DEAL WITH. STUDENTS AND THEIR PARENTS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHY. Carmen: THE BUILDING WAS IMMEDIATELY LOCKED DOWN. AND A SHORT TIME LATER, FRIGHTENED CHILDREN WERE ALLOWED TO LEAVE THE BUILDING, MOST OF THEM PICKED UP BY PARENTS. LET'S GO LIVE TO OUR ROGER WEBER. ROGER, THIS IS JUST TRAGIC! Roger: CERTAINLY IS, CARMEN. HE OBTAINED A HANDGUN FROM A FAMILY MEMBER WHO LIVES IN ANOTHER JURISDICTION. THE GUN WAS UNSECURED. THE BOY BROUGHT IT HERE TODAY AND KILLED HIMSELF. THE CHILDREN SPEAKING ARE DOING SO WITH THE PERMISSION OF THEIR PARENTS. SHORTLY AFTER CLASSES BEGAN THIS MORNING, AN EIGHTH GRADE BOY ASKED TO USE AN UPSTAIRS BATHROOM, WENT INSIDE AND KILLED HIMSELF WITH A .40-CALIBER GLOCK HANDGUN. THIS GIRL WAS IN SCIENCE CLASS WHEN ANOTHER BOY WHO USED THE SAME RESTROOM, FOUND THE VICTIM. HE SAID THERE WAS A KID IN THE BATHROOM BREATHING WEIRD. Roger: THE SCHOOL CALLED POLICE AND ORDERED A LOCKDOWN. THE DOORS WERE LOCKED WHILE THE STAFF HANDLE IT. Roger: PARENTS WERE NOTIFIED THERE WAS A MEDICAL EMERGENCY AND TO COME GET THEIR SONS AND DAUGHTERS. I WAS TERRIFIED! I WAS SO GLAD HE WAS OKAY. Roger: NOW IT WAS THE PARENTS' TURN TO PROTECT CHILDREN, WITH SHOULDERS TO CRY ON AND HANDS TO HOLD. WE GOTTA GO HOME AND TALK ABOUT IT. NO MATTER WHAT'S GOING ON IN YOUR LIFE, IT'S NEVER A REASON TO HARM YOURSELF OR ANYBODY ELSE. Roger: HE SHOT HIMSELF IN THE HEAD AND DIED AT SOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL. I BELIEVE THERE WAS A NOTE THAT IT WAS NOT DISCOVERED UNTIL HE HAD GONE TO THE HOSPITAL, THAT IT WAS EITHER CONTAINED ON HIS PERSON, IN A POCKET, OR PINNED TO HIM SOMEHOW ROFRJT THE NOTE WAS A GOOD-BYE TO A SCHOOLMATE AND RAISED NO ISSUES WITH THAT PERSON. SCHOOL OFFICIALS SAY THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE THE BOY HAD BEEN BULLIED. VERY GOOD STUDENT, SOMEWHAT POPULAR, TALKING WITH THE STAFF HE HAD NEVER GONE TO ANYBODY ABOUT ISSUES. I FEEL SO SORRY FOR THE CHILD, I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE! Roger: THE PUBLIC SAFETY DIRECTOR AND CLARIFIED THE NOTE WAS MORE OF AN OPEN LETTER IN WHICH HE COMPLAINED ABOUT DRAMA IN HIS LIFE AND SAID BY THE TIME THIS IS READ, I'LL HAVE KILLED MYSELF. LOCAL 4 NORMALLY DOES NOT COVER SUICIDES BUT WE'RE HERE BECAUSE
