Confusion, despair and anger. In the aftermath of a suicide, these are often the emotions loved ones most easily summon. Confusion about the thought process…
Oscar winner and comedian Robin Williams died this morning in an apparent suicide. He was 63 years old. His publicist Mara Buxbaum released the following statement: “Robin Williams passed away this morning. He has been battling severe depression of late. This is a tragic and sudden loss. The family respectfully asks for their privacy as they grieve […]
Actor/comedian Robin Williams is dead at 63, an apparent suicide. Celebs and colleagues via Twitter responded with shock and fond memories of the popular funnyman.
CHICAGO (AP) — A demoted worker shot and critically injured his company’s CEO before fatally shooting himself Thursday inside a downtown Chicago high-rise office building in the city’s bustling financial district, police said. Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said a worker at a technological company entered the 17th-floor office and met with his CEO before pulling […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Two police officers were “simply having lunch” at a strip mall pizza buffet in Las Vegas when a man and a woman fatally shot them in point-blank ambush, then fled to a nearby Walmart where they killed a third person and then themselves in an apparent suicide pact, authorities said. The […]
The Beygency is really getting out of hand. According to Gary With Da Tea, one Beyonce fan took her obsession with the “Drunk In Love” singer…
SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — In less than 10 minutes after his mother dropped him off at school on the morning of Oct. 21, 2013, seventh-grader Jose Reyes and a popular middle school teacher lay on the school yard, dead from gunshot wounds. Two classmates were wounded and a school was in panic. After seventh months […]
Founder of the website For Brown Girls, Karyn Washington and mind behind the project, #DarkSkinRedLip, has reportedly committed suicide. Washington launched her website in order to celebrate the beauty of black women who don’t always feel the love out here, and pushed the project #DarkSkinRedLip to encourage black women of all shades to embrace wearing […]
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Colleges and universities are struggling with sex assaults on campus, even as they spend more time and money to comply with stricter enforcement of gender discrimination laws. But the case of a University of Missouri swimmer, who said she was raped in an episode her parents say led her to suicide, […]
A former aide to U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander hanged himself in his parents’ basement in Maryland as he awaited trial on child pornography charges, officials said Friday. Ryan Loskarn, 35, was pronounced dead in Sykesville, Md., just after noon Thursday, said Bruce Goldfarb, a spokesman for the Maryland Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in […]
Police investigating the death of KayO Redd, the younger brother of rapper Waka Flocka Flame, say the evidence points to a self-inflicted gunshot wound, reports TMZ. Police in Henry County, Georgia say the body of KayO, born Caodes Scott, was discovered last night in the subdivision where he lived. Waka’s mother and hip-hop manager Debra […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A man and his 3-year-old son plummeted to their deaths from a Manhattan apartment building, police said Sunday as they investigated what led to the tragedy. Authorities said they received an emergency call reporting two jumpers from the 52-floor building on the Upper West Side around noon. Officers responding to the […]
