Columbia-On September 19, 2012, 14 year old Brigit Lorena Gonzalez committed suicide by shooting herself with a .38 caliber gun in front of her classmates. To draw attention to her suicide, she fired two shots into the air. Her startled classmates and teachers who responded to the gunfire tried to argue her out of killing herself (as can be heard from the video) but she was determined to go through with it.


She waited for people to gather round, then when the authorities showed up, she shot herself.

The police and ambulance were already at the scene and promptly took her to the hospital, but there was nothing they could do to save her.

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