(AP) MISSION VIEJO, Calif. An Orange County teenager shot himself to death after posting warnings on a Web site for teens and young adults that he was going to commit suicide.
One posting says the 17-year-old boy began communicating his troubled feelings at least a year ago on
www.myspace.com. His hometown and pictures of him with his friends were on the site, but his full name was not on his homepage profile.
Friends became alarmed Monday night and posted messages urging him not to hurt himself, but at 8:14 a.m. Tuesday he left a message saying "call the police" and "I'm so sorry."
At about 8:30 a.m., he sent a suicide text message over his cellular telephone.
Friends at Capistrano Valley High School alerted school officials, who called the teen's mother. She rushed home to Mission Viejo, but paramedics were already there and found her only child dead from a gunshot wound in a bathroom.
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From the OC Register:
".............In interviews Thursday, as teen after teen streamed into his home, his mother and grandparents said there were no signs.
He waited until his mother, a sergeant first class Army reservist who spent a year in Iraq before returning in April, was at work at her insurance company.
His stepfather was out of the country.
The boy with light-brown bangs falling past his eyes broke into a safe containing a pistol, according to his mother.
Then he killed himself."
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