7-year-old boy's suicide shocks Detroit community

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7-year-old boy's suicide shocks Detroit community By Gina Damron, Cecil Angel and Matt Helms, Detroit Free Press

Updated: 05/25/2012 11:35am

DETROIT - Peering through the keyhole of a locked door in her family's home, a 14-year-old girl saw the unthinkable: her 7-year-old brother hanging from a bunk bed with a belt around his neck, a police report says.

The girl alerted her mother and called 911. The mother and a neighbor forced their way into the room, took the boy down, and called 911, too.

The 7-year-old, whom the Detroit Free Press is not naming, had been depressed about being bullied by other kids at school and in his neighborhood, and about his parents' recent separation, the boy's mother told police, according to the report.

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