The Jeremiah Lasater tragedy
10-20-08 - A ninth-grader apparently shot and killed himself in a
restroom at Vasquez High School on Monday, school officials said. The
boy
was found by another student at the campus.
Authorities are investigating the death of Jeremiah Finton Lasater, 14, as a
suicide. He was found in a boys; restroom with a gunshot wound to the head.
"The
cause of death is a gunshot wound to the head," said Ed Winter, a
spokesman for
the Los Angeles County coroner's office. "The case is being
investigated as a
possible suicide."
No one else was in the bathroom at the time, according to the Los Angeles
County Sheriff's Department. His body was discovered later by students, said
Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore.