Us Teen Suicides

14-year-old Sewell Setzer III, a Florida boy, would chat with his online friend, Daenerys Targaryen, a lifelike AI chatbot named after a character from Game of Thrones.

Her sudden death has sparked an outpouring of support and condolences from fans, fellow performers, and loved ones.

US President Joe Biden called for an end to discrimination Thursday after an autopsy found a nonbinary teenager died by suicide a day after clashing with three other students.

The incident happened on Saturday night when the teenager jumped to her death from a fifth-floor window of the six-story NYU art building.

When William Patrick Williams called his grandmother from a hotel room on July 13, she could hear him fiddling with the AK-47 rifle he had bought two days earlier. He told her he was homicidal and suicidal, according to a criminal complaint filed by the U.S. attorney's office, and said he wanted to "shoot up" the hotel and then "commit suicide by c...

Suicides by young Americans rose by nearly a third in the month following the 2017 debut of popular Netflix television drama series "13 Reasons Why," in which a teenage girl kills herself, a U.S. study showed on Monday.

A Florida teenager believed to be obsessed with the Columbine massacre was found dead in Colorado on Wednesday after she triggered a manhunt by making a "pilgrimage" to the state, days before the 20th anniversary of the infamous school attack.

Sydney Aiello, a survivor of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, killed herself last weekend, according to family members and friends cited in news reports. The Broward County medical examiner's office told NBC that Aiello died of a gunshot wound to the head.

Months after his arrest, BJP lawmaker Kuldeep Singh Sengar has been charged by the CBI with raping a 15-year-old in Unnao in Uttar Pradesh, a case in which action was taken only after the girl tried to commit suicide opposite Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's house. The politician, who remains in the ruling party, has been threatening the teen's fam...

In Manchester, numerous fundraising initiatives have sprung up since a blast killed at least 22 people during a concert by US singer Ariana Grande. US teen pop idol Ariana Grande, whose show was targeted by suicide bomber Salman Abedi, also plans to hold a charity concert in Manchester.

A 13-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed himself live on Instagram as his friends watched in horror. Malachi Hemphill of Forest Park, Georgia, was found unconscious by his mother Shaniqua Stephens and her daughter after they heard a loud bang from his bedroom.

Three days after a woman and her teen daughter were gang-raped after being dragged out of their car in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr, the family has threatened suicide if the attackers are not punished within three months.

"Education is the only way forward for us," said his daughter Sonali, 22. "There is too much uncertainty in farming and not enough returns."

Police say all evidence collected during their investigation into the shooting death of a handcuffed teenager indicates he killed himself with a concealed large-caliber pistol that a rookie officer failed to detect when he frisked him.

The prosecutor brought charges Monday against nine teenagers, saying their taunting and physical threats were beyond the pale and led the freshman, Phoebe Prince, to hang herself from a stairwell in January.

14-year-old Sewell Setzer III, a Florida boy, would chat with his online friend, Daenerys Targaryen, a lifelike AI chatbot named after a character from Game of Thrones.

Her sudden death has sparked an outpouring of support and condolences from fans, fellow performers, and loved ones.

US President Joe Biden called for an end to discrimination Thursday after an autopsy found a nonbinary teenager died by suicide a day after clashing with three other students.

The incident happened on Saturday night when the teenager jumped to her death from a fifth-floor window of the six-story NYU art building.

When William Patrick Williams called his grandmother from a hotel room on July 13, she could hear him fiddling with the AK-47 rifle he had bought two days earlier. He told her he was homicidal and suicidal, according to a criminal complaint filed by the U.S. attorney's office, and said he wanted to "shoot up" the hotel and then "commit suicide by c...

Suicides by young Americans rose by nearly a third in the month following the 2017 debut of popular Netflix television drama series "13 Reasons Why," in which a teenage girl kills herself, a U.S. study showed on Monday.

A Florida teenager believed to be obsessed with the Columbine massacre was found dead in Colorado on Wednesday after she triggered a manhunt by making a "pilgrimage" to the state, days before the 20th anniversary of the infamous school attack.

Sydney Aiello, a survivor of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, killed herself last weekend, according to family members and friends cited in news reports. The Broward County medical examiner's office told NBC that Aiello died of a gunshot wound to the head.

Months after his arrest, BJP lawmaker Kuldeep Singh Sengar has been charged by the CBI with raping a 15-year-old in Unnao in Uttar Pradesh, a case in which action was taken only after the girl tried to commit suicide opposite Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's house. The politician, who remains in the ruling party, has been threatening the teen's fam...

In Manchester, numerous fundraising initiatives have sprung up since a blast killed at least 22 people during a concert by US singer Ariana Grande. US teen pop idol Ariana Grande, whose show was targeted by suicide bomber Salman Abedi, also plans to hold a charity concert in Manchester.

A 13-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed himself live on Instagram as his friends watched in horror. Malachi Hemphill of Forest Park, Georgia, was found unconscious by his mother Shaniqua Stephens and her daughter after they heard a loud bang from his bedroom.

Three days after a woman and her teen daughter were gang-raped after being dragged out of their car in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr, the family has threatened suicide if the attackers are not punished within three months.

"Education is the only way forward for us," said his daughter Sonali, 22. "There is too much uncertainty in farming and not enough returns."

Police say all evidence collected during their investigation into the shooting death of a handcuffed teenager indicates he killed himself with a concealed large-caliber pistol that a rookie officer failed to detect when he frisked him.

The prosecutor brought charges Monday against nine teenagers, saying their taunting and physical threats were beyond the pale and led the freshman, Phoebe Prince, to hang herself from a stairwell in January.