The scene of the tragedy on Thursday. Photo by Donovan McIntosh
Police are investigating the suspected suicide of a juvenile in a home on Oxford Drive.
At around 2pm, officers received reports of a body being found at the house off Nassau Boulevard.
When they arrived at the scene they found the juvenile male, believed to be between 13 and 18-years-old, lying on the ground in a room and unresponsive.
Emergency Medical Services were called and attempted to resuscitate the victim but were unsuccessful.
The coroner has visited the scene and investigations are ongoing.
Comments
John 4 years ago
Times are hard and desperation sets in. But don’t give up. RIP
ThisIsOurs 4 years ago
Marvin Dames needs to stop the glowing praise for crime being down under these ridiculous lockdowns. People are under extraordinary mental stress. Suicides are skyrocketing... "relatively" these frequencies are unheard of for our country. Domestic violence is another problem. They need to stop using this stick and ignoring the brokenness left behind
birdiestrachan 4 years ago
This is very sad. Mr. Dames is a very pompous man.
This to will pass.
pileit 4 years ago
wth does possible juvenile suicide have to do with the crime rate? You political morons need to stop, just once for God's sake. This is tragic.
ThisIsOurs 4 years ago
You missed the point. Suicides are skyrocketing.
Something is seriously wrong. Yes you can single out this case as extraordinarily tragic because it's a teenage, it is tragic, but someone in parliament needs to be addressing the pattern.
People are under tremendous mental stress some of it due to normal life pressures clearly magnified by the psychological damage of being locked up nonstop since March. At the same time we have Marvin Dames praising low crime numbers and we all know crime is down because the entire country has been locked up. The two issues are not mutually exclusive if you ignore the damage these unnecessarily punitive and ill thought out lockdowns are doing these tragic stories will continue. And I did not say in face of an outbreak a lockdown would not assist, I'm saying they're being used improperly and causing silent harm. And if you dont point out the linkage they will use these mentally damaging tools for decades to come. Remember when police officers were stopping people for not wearing a mask while driving with windows rolled up and ZLive found some out a limb I have to show I'm supportive of the govt or else they'll take my contract rationale for why it made sense? Sometimes you need to point out what clearly doesn't make sense while it's happening not when it's in the rearview mirror.
DDK 4 years ago
That man should also resign..
joeblow 4 years ago
This headline is irresponsible for the family of the deceased especially since no initial drug testing etc was done!
The Tribune, always in a rush to print sensational headlines without fact checking first!
whogothere 4 years ago
The national average of Bahamian suicides is consistently 2 per year. By my count (and it’s super rough) we’ve had 5-6 suicides or suspected suicides and 3-4 Failed attempts reported in the tribune..since the country first went into lockdown on March 24th.. Essentially thats a 500% increase.
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