Bullied 14 year old Utah junior high school student commits dat in front of classmates
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By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
A 14-year-old junior high school student in Utah has committed suicide by shooting himself in the head in front of a group of classmates Thursday. Those who knew the victim, identified Friday as David Q. Phan, described him as a boy who was always nice to everyone, but who was often mistreated by his classmates. Granite School District spokesman Ben Horsley said the ninth-grader had left Bennion Junior High in the Salt Lake City suburb of Taylorsville with his mother at around 1.30pm after a trip to the principal's office.
Just before 3pm, Phan returned alone to a pedestrian bridge near the school where he came upon several students who had just gotten out of school for the day. Several parents were also present. That is when Unified Police Lt. Justin Hoyal said the teen pulled out a handgun and shot himself in the head. When first responders arrived on the scene, Phan was still alive. The teen was rushed by ambulance to Intermountain Medical Center in critical condition, but died a short while later. Police are not yet identifying the teenager.The bridge where the shooting took place is just off school grounds near the southwest corner of the campus.
On Friday, police revealed that the gun Phan used in the suicide was kept in a locked safe at his home. They do not believe the 14-year-old brought the weapon to the campus. Horsley said before Phan was let out of school with his mother, he was searched for weapons. The spokesperson did not elaborate what led school officials to search the teen.
'I was just walking. I hear a big sound and I hear everybody yelling and then I turned around and I saw it and there was a lot of blood,' Ethan Wily told Fox13. At around 8pm Thursday, more than 200 people gathered on the bridge, candles in hand, for a vigil. The Salt Lake Tribune reported that they remembered Phan as a kind and friendly soul.
‘He was one of the sweetest guys I've ever known,’ said Hunter Evensen, a fellow ninth-grader. He remembered when the teen had bought him a drink and never expected to be paid back for it. Evensen and others who attended the vigil on the bridge embraced each other and prayed for Phan before releasing six balloons into the night sky in his honor.
Unified Police detectives are interviewing students who witnessed the shooting, Hoyal said. Police and school district officials said they don't yet what led Phan to take his own life, but those who knew the victim said he had endured bullying at the hands of dozens of students.
'They were just mean to him for no reason,' classmate Alicia Earl told ABC 4. A statement posted on the school district's Facebook page read in part that Phan had been contacted regularly by a counselor over the past 18 months over bullying concerns, but the teen did not report being mistreated or harassed.
Phan's classmate Makayla Schmidt pointed out that sometimes bullying is hard to detect, especially when it comes to verbal abuse. 'I heard it, people (talking about him),' she told KSL. 'I don't think people realize how much words can hurt.'
Horsley said the teen had reached out to a counselor last year for personal reasons, but did not complain about being bullied. He added that the school will investigate the allegations. The school district is providing counselors to talk with students and families in the wake of the death. In a statement, the Granite School District said that Phan's suicide appears to be an isolated incident that is not related to any kind of criminal activity.
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probably self defense
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I woulda atleast gone after the kids first.
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life goes on..................
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Left a red mist on the white board
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thought he was punishing the kids i bet...
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That counselor just got a lot more busy...
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What a ? clot how bout get too whoppin some ass!
Killing your damn self ? is wrong with these kids. -
I wonder if bullied teens would start killing the bullies and the bullies only, would things change? Maybe.
Is suicide working? Not so much. -
Dayum this generation soft as ? ...
Ngas use to get beat the ? and teased all the time back in the day...never did one shoot themselves..
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Whatever happened to fighting back, a bunch of slack jawed ? . smh
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thought he was punishing the kids i bet...
In a way he did, I know that would be an image that would haunt me for life, especially if I were the one bullying the person.
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Lol..what's so ? up is..folks coming out on a stance on bullying, but yet alone them are same folks who when in school were the ones cracking the ? jokes..smh..it is what it is..kids will get clown..that's been goin on since the 1st day of school..clown back or fight back..dayum..
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From a genetic standpoint, if you can't make it through the hardships you don't end up reproducing and your genetics are not longer in the gene pool. His genetic make-up was invalid, so nature took its course and removed it from the gene pool.
Survival of the fittest. -
"If I take you outta the picture, I bet real ? won't miss ya...No lie, no lie..."
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Naw, but that is sad though, O guess...Smh @ a candle light vigil...
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? think bullying stops after high school, the work force is more treacherous than the school system. Better get a ? back bone and stop being soft.
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I cant even muster any ? .. its sad but im tired of this ? .. these kids are weak as ?
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Good riddance.. one less limp wristed ? in the world..
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playmaker88 wrote: »I cant even muster any ? .. its sad but im tired of this ? .. these kids are weak as ?
These 'weak' kids aren't popping out the ? this way, how about the parents? -
? think bullying stops after high school, the work force is more treacherous than the school system. Better get a ? back bone and stop being soft.
You damn right. I got a labor job working for a paint crew (painters are the biggest degenerates of construction jobs) and oooohhh boy was that an eye opener. I think the guys I was with were especially the big ? , but still It was quite the incline from high school.
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What happened to grabbing a bat and just knock the ? outa bullies?
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MzGrahamBitches wrote: »playmaker88 wrote: »I cant even muster any ? .. its sad but im tired of this ? .. these kids are weak as ?
These 'weak' kids aren't popping out the ? this way, how about the parents?
Of course.. the parents are providing room and board.. but not RAISING THERE kids to be self reliant,and confident.. they need some of that blame as well for not instilling core values. and blah blah
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It has to be more in this ? ..to why these kids offing themselves...
I wanna blame Zach and Cody and all these other ? shows they show...These kids are picking up these 'weak' emotions from somewhere..
I remember watching Steve Urkel...that nga stayed getting ? over..at least he fought back lol...I think they need shows like this -
it's actually not all that weak if you think about it. dude scarred them kids for life.
we used to tease this ? the school bus relentlessly back in middle school and i still think back to it from time to time and wish i could go back and not be just a follower and as far as i know she got over it and moved on and had a good life.
if she had blown her own brains out one day in front of all of us i'd be damaged goods.