In the United States, suicide is twice as common as homicide — and more often involves firearms — but public perception is just the opposite. News reports, movies and TV shows may contribute to the perception of a high risk of firearm homicide, authors of a new study say, leaving a substantial gap between ideas […]
First suicide attempts are more lethal than previously realized, reports a study of children and adolescentspublished in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP). Seventy-one percent of youth dying by suicide did so on their first attempt, also known as the “index” attempt; the authors also found that firearms are implicated in 85 percent […]
After a preliminary investigation in the death of a Stony River man, what was first determined to be a suicide has turned into what could be a homicide investigation, troopers report. On Wednesday of last week, AST received a report of the death of 66-year-old Stony River man, identified as Deacon Evan. It was initially […]
The Alaska State Troopers responded to the Fairbanks Farmers Market on Wednesday after receiving a report of a body there. When troopers and EMS arrived at the scene and AST opened an investigation, they found that the deceased, identified as 62-year-old Paul Koehler, had died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Koehler’s remains were sent to the […]