Students of Vasquez High School

The Vasquez High School, in Acton, California, witnessed the death of yet another bullying victim. Teenager Jeremiah Finton Lasater, of 14, committed suicide in the boys’ restroom, on Monday, 20th of October.

The boy was a junior varsity football player, but his learning disability and his stature (he was 6-foot-5), made of him one of his colleagues’ favorite bullying targets. Even his fellow special needs students laughed at him and made pranks on him.

Students who remember having seen Lasater on the day of his death say two boys threw food at him in the cafeteria, and that at the end of the lunch break he went into the boys’ toilet and never came out. Then everybody heard the gunshot and they found the body of the boy who had shot himself in the head.

The school direction, friends and parents were all in a state of shock and were worried Jeremiah’s gesture could influence other depressed and bullied teenagers. The state of shock and grief quickly turned into one of anger when they found out there were people who actually knew all about the bullying episodes.

Unfortunately, when confronted, all those involved denied being aware of any such episode. Nobody wants to take the blame for the shocking death of a 14-year old nerdy kid, even though to his parents he was the best kid ever.

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