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.

South Korean Firefighters

Other than banks and the Stock Market, the financial world crisis seems to affect people on a personal level as well. In Seoul, South Korea, a man called Jeong, wanted to commit suicide due to various financial problems.

In an attempt to suicide, he tried to burn out his room and consequently the building he was living in.

Unfortunately, he didn’t stop at that and, in his way through the building situated in Southern Seoul, he stabbed five of his neighbors to death and wounded other seven with a sashimi knife. A sixth person died when jumping out the window to escape the fire. The doctors are not yet sure if all the wounded will make it.

The paradox of this situation is that the 31 year old suicidal man did not suffer any injuries. He has been arrested and the two other knives and the tear gas gun he had in his possession were seized as police evidence.

He justified his actions by saying that he had been really depressed ever since he lost his job, in April. Sources say he has a history of mental problems, including past suicide attempts, severe migraines, and they say he has even had eight murder convictions in the past.

Kazuyoshi Miura

Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese citizen, was arrested again a few days ago and taken into Los Angeles custody. The man is accused of having arranged for his wife to be murdered while they were in L.A. in 1981; the case has been under investigation for 27 years but the Police did not have enough evidence to charge him.

It seems that he managed to escape trial after all, by committing suicide in his cell, using a piece of his shirt to hang himself.

The 61 year old man stepped foot on U.S. territory on Friday, after being transferred from Saipan (U.S. Commonwealth), where he had been held since 1988.

He was accused of conspiracy to murder, when a hired assassin shot both him and his wife in 1981; he took a bullet in the leg, but the killer aimed for his wife’s head. She was severely injured and did not make it for more than a year after the shooting.

Porter Ranch Town Center

In one of the most exclusive neighborhoods in Los Angeles the latest news has terrified the population. An unemployed accountant killed his whole family with gunshots- his wife, his three children and his mother in law- and then committed suicide.

The bodies of six persons, three adults and three children, have been found today in Porter Ranch, a select area of San Fernando Valley (California).

According to the Los Angeles police, the author is an unemployed financial consultant who has shot to death his 39 year old wife,  and his 7, 12 and 19 year old children and then shot himself.

The authorities have not yet revealed the identity of the victims, but they did say that they found three good-bye notes at the murder scene: one of them addressed to the Police, the second to the friends and family and a third one which is his last will and testament.

The Police attended site after one of the neighbors reported hearing gun shots next door. They declared that the 45 year old man was in deep financial problems and had bought the murder weapon last September.
Friends and family have identified the deceased as being Karthik and Subasri Rajaram.