Suicide

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Mindy McCready Commits Suicide, Country Music Star Dead at 37

Double-platinum country music recording star and the oft-tormented Mindy McCready was found dead at her Arkansas property last night, the victim of an apparent suicide. She was 37. According to a statement released by the Cleburne County Sheriff's office, McCready died of a self-inflected gunshot ... More >>

Junior Seau Suffered From Concussion-Linked Brain Disease Before Suicide, Autopsy Finds

From the moment former Dolphins star Junior Seau took his own life last May, many questioned whether brain injuries linked to the dozens of concussions he'd suffered may have contributed to his death at just 43 years old.This morning, scientists at the National Institutes of Health have an answer: S ... More >>

Key West Principal Commits Suicide at Pembroke Pines Gun Range

Adri Anna Stewart, the principal of Key West Collegiate Academy, committed suicide yesterday at a Pembroke Pines gun range. The incident happened at about 2 p.m.

Carnival Let Drunk Man Fall Overboard, Falsely Called It Suicide, Lawsuit Claims

A Texas woman claims in a lawsuit that Carnival Cruise Lines was not only responsible for the death of her husband after he fell overboard last September, but also slandered her family by telling the media that he had committed suicide. Clint Markham, who died after falling off a Carnival cruise sh ... More >>

Florida Teen Shoots Himself in Head to Wake Up From Bad Shroom Trip

Stephen Tilbury, 17, of DeLand, Florida, had a really, really bad 'shroom trip. How bad? He decided that shooting himself directly in the forehead would be a better option than carrying on with the experience. Granted, no 'shroom trip is really worth the possibility of death, but that just goes to s ... More >>

Lawsuit: 7-Year-Old Charter School Student Was Molested by Classmate, Tried to Commit Suicide While School Did Nothing

The Downtown Miami Charter School is being sued by a mother of a 7-year-old boy who claims her son was repeatedly harassed and sexually assaulted by an older schoolmate. The mother claims that harassment and molestation got so bad the boy attempted to commit suicide, while the school did nothing to ... More >>

Schools Ignore Gay Bullying at Their Own Peril

Junior Seau's Dementia Was Predicted By Scientist Studying Dave Duerson's Brain

When Dave Duerson committed suicide in a Sunny Isles condo in February 2011, the manner of his death was so shocking and tragic-- a bright and beloved former football star shooting himself in the chest to preserve his brain for concussion-related dementia testing-- that it seemed to signal the begin ... More >>

Boxer Yathomas Riley: Beast or Victim?

Woman Jumps to Her Death from Aventura Mall Parking Garage: Third Suicide in a Month

For the third time in a month, a person has committed suicide at Aventura Mall. A still unidentified Hispanic woman in her mid-40s jumped to her death from atop a parking garage at the nation's fifth largest shopping mall yesterday afternoon at around 2:30.

Man Commits Suicide Outside Aventura Mall by Jumping Off Parking Garage

A woman walking to her car after Aventura Mall closed last night made a gruesome discovery: the body of a dead man. Now police have confirmed that the man committed suicide by jumping from the top of one mega-mall's parking garages.

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Dave Duerson's Assets Were Worth a Grand Total of $19,500 at Death

​In April 2011, former Chicago Bears star Dave Duerson killed himself in his Sunny Isles apartment, his brain racked by football injuries. The once proud and successful businessman was six months into the bankruptcy process. His suicide-- shooting himself in the chest to preserve his brain for dem ... More >>

Florida Family Association Boycotts Target For Not Hating Homosexuals Enough

David Canton gets crazy ideas when he sees gay teens on Degrassi kiss.Florida Family Association, one of these "morality" groups that's pretty much a soap box for some guy named David Canton, has decided to call for a boycott of Target because *gasp* they don't think gay teens should kill themselves ... More >>

Inmate Commits Suicide by Water Bottle in Back of Jail Van

​A jail transport van was driving inmate Drew Gabrish, 50, from Key West to Martin County. When guards stopped at the Miami-Dade jail earlier this week to pick up another inmate they found Gabrish dead in the back of the van. He had committed suicide by choking himself on a water bottle.

DJ Laz's Gun Used in Miramar Murder-Suicide

​Power 96 morning host and Miami bass legend DJ Laz finds himself connected to a bizarre murder-suicide that occurred in Miramar this past weekend.Marcus Trotman, 25, shot his wife, 30-year-old Danielle Lorenzo, and his mother-in-law, Linda Scudera, before turning the gun on himself. All three die ... More >>

78-Year-Old Kills 21-Year-Old Wife, Sets House on Fire

via Floerchinger's Facebook​Guenther Floerchinger, a 78-year-old man, is alleged to have shot his 21-year-old wife before setting his Port St. Lucie home on fire and then killing himself. Floerchinger made two phone calls before his suicide -- one asking a neighbor to take his wife's 4-year-old da ... More >>

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Couple Commits Suicide Outside Florida Church They Married in 40 Years Ago

via Daily Mail​Forty years ago, Patricia and Bruce Wright promised to love each other until death do them part at the Friendship United Methodist Church in Punta Gorda, Florida. In a tragic tale, the couple, who had most recently lived in Las Vegas, returned to the church on Sunday and killed them ... More >>

North Miami Man Kills Wife While Kids Were Home

​Last night, an unidentified North Miami man killed his wife, then failed in his attempt to kill himself. Police say that the couple's three children, ages 4, 11, and 13, were home at the time. The children were unhurt, but one of the kids may have witnessed the father murdering his mother.

Ten-Year-Old Florida Boy Commits Suicide After Being Sent to Room

via Ten ConnectThe apartment where the little boy is believed to have committed suicide. ​A little after 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the parents of 10-year-old Tyriq Ammons sent him to his room for misbehaving. Forty-five minutes later his mother went to check on him. She opened the door to fin ... More >>

Dad Accused of Killing Toddler During "Boxing Lessons" Commits Suicide in Jail

​Lee Willie DeJesus, a 25-year-old father from Homestead, was put behind bars last August after allegedly killing his two-year-old son during "boxing lessons". He spent the rest of his life there. On Saturday DeJesus was found hanging from his own bed sheets at the Miami-Dade jail.

Possible Murder-Suicide in Kendall: Couple Found Dead After Kids Leave for School

​Police are investigating a double shooting this morning in Kendall that left a couple dead inside their home. While the investigation is on-going, detectives believe that the incident may have been a double shooting. Two children resided with the couple in the home, but had left for school earlie ... More >>

Mother, Son Fatally Stabbed in Gruesome Murder

​A mother and her adult son were fatally stabbed Wednesday night during a domestic dispute in a West Miami Dade home. The killer then turned the knife on himself but survived. When police arrived shortly after 7 p.m. at a home on 133rd Place and Southwest 58th Terrace, they found a gruesome scene ... More >>

Woman Kills Boyfriend Before Committing Suicide

​Miami police are investigating an apparent murder-suicide involving a live-in boyfriend and girlfriend couple that happened sometime in the last 24 hours, reports The Miami Herald. Police believe the girlfriend shot and killed her boyfriend before shooting herself.

87-Year-Old Man Planned Ex-Girlfriend's Murder for Months

via CBS4​Last Friday, we had few details about the bizarre murder that left an 84-year-old woman dead at the hands of an 87-year-old who had also shot himself. Now, Juan Adolfo Gonzalez has been identified as the gunman. He told police he had been plotting the murder of Celina Hernandez, his ... More >>

87-Year-Old Man Kills 84-Year-Old Woman Then Tries to Kill Himself

A bizarre murder-suicide attempt today has left one octogenarian dead, and another injured. Police are investigation and incident in which an 87-year-old man pulled a gun on an 84-year-old woman and then apparently turned it toward himself.

Five Dead in Murder-Suicide in Hialeah Restaurant

A man shot six women -- killing four -- at a Hialeah restaurant on June 6, before leaving the scene and eventually killing himself on one of the most gruesome killing sprees in the history of the city. According to WSVN,the shootings started after a argument between a man and his girlfriend in the ... More >>

Rafer Alston Left Heat to Be With Suicidal Twin Sister

Oh man, we kind of feel bad for making light of Rafer Alston's mysterious dissapearence from the Heat. According to ESPN, Alston says his decision had little to do with losing his spot in the starting line up and more to do with the attempted suicide of his twin sister."I've never been a quitter and ... More >>

Juan Manuel Oliva and Sheila Mora Identified As Couple in Miami Beach Murder-Suicide

Police have released the identity of the couple involved in yesterday's apparent murder-suicide in Miami Beach.Thirty-five-year-old Sheila Mora was found stabbed to death in the couple's apartment, Unit 3707 in the beachfront Akoya building on 6365 Collins Avenue. Police discovered her body aft ... More >>

Letters from the Issue of September 17, 2009

"One has to be strong not to do something as extreme as killing oneself."

Legends of the Fall

In Miami's jungle of condo towers, 16 people have jumped to their deaths.

Piece of Mind

Jackson's mental health unit fails Miami.

Miami Man Wins $1 Billion in Imaginary Money from Che and Fidel

Gustavo Villoldo, an ex-CIA operative who claims to have personally buried Che Guevara, was awarded a settlement today of $1 billion from Guevara and Fidel Castro by Miami-Dade Judge Peter Adrian. Villoldo claims that the pair was personally responsible for his father's suicide. It's the largest civ ... More >>

DJ Khaled Has Not Been Killed in a High-Speed Bentley Chase, DJ Khaled Claims

In one of the more outrageous celebrity-death rumors we've heard (FYI: Eminem, Blossom, and Doogie Howser are indeed alive) various blogs have been reporting that Miami pseudo-star DJ Khaled led cops on a three-hour Bentley chase through Los Angeles streets before killing himself. A white-Bentley- ... More >>

Teen Commits Suicide on Webcam

The sad story of Abraham Biggs, the Pembroke Pines teen who commited suicide live on webcam, just broke locally, but details began emerging from various Internet sources late yesterday afternoon. Valleywag reports that Biggs was a regular user of Justin.tv, a lifecasting site, often transmitting th ... More >>

Walk On the Dark Side

And now for something completely different

Dark Defiance

A journalist, a kick-ass story, a suicide

Rough Love

Kids from South Florida and beyond are sent to Jamaica to straighten up. Or else.

Disintegration

Marcy Hine had everything going for her; then she killed herself

Letters from the Issue of August 4, 2005

Response to "Tales of Teele," published July 28, 2005

The Question That Won't Die

A mild-mannered U.S. Customs inspector is shot to death. Police call it suicide. Friends and family say that’s inconceivable.

Steal This Movie

Studios don't get the Upright Citizens, which isn't funny at all

The Un-Teflon Don

After years of popularity, a financial scandal threatens the reign of City Manager Donald Warshaw

The Last Temptation of George Petrie

He was supposed to turn up dead. His friend, attorney Robert Roth, was supposed to wrap up his affairs. Now they've ended up mortal enemies.

Reach Out and Help Someone

Potential suicide. Sexual anxiety. Adolescent angst. No matter how hung-up you are, the counselors at Switchboard of Miami won't hang up -- or give up -- on you.

Last Writes

Some suicide notes are short, some tell a more detailed story. They all have unhappy endings.

Boneyard Ramble

Crushed in a garbage truck, poisoned by a landlady, crapped out-literally--during a dice game. These and more are buried in this county's cemetaries, and come Halloween night, they'll be dying to get out

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