Name withheld by police

How they died

Suicide

Authorities responded to an apartment, where a distraught teen inside was threatening to hurt himself with a handgun. Police first spoke with the boy by phone, before he hung up on negotiators. They then used a loudspeaker, but the boy did not respond. Most of the officers had left the scene around noon when it was determined the boy was not a threat to himself or anyone else. A family member went inside the apartment and discovered the boy had killed himself.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Name withheld by police, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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