{"id":776,"date":"2017-11-08T19:50:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T19:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=776"},"modified":"2017-11-08T19:57:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T19:57:23","slug":"teen-dies-by-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=776","title":{"rendered":"Teen dies by suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Noelita Lawrence<\/strong><br \/>\nStaff Reporter<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The words \u201cyou cannot go\u201d are reportedly at the heart of an alleged suicide in Chantilly Gardens, Sav-la-Mar, Westmoreland on Saturday, November 4.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The victim is 13-year-old Geshan Golaub, otherwise known as \u2018Gesh\u2019, a Second Form student of the Manning\u2019s School<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>According to information reaching the <strong>Western Mirror<\/strong> the teen was at his home about 2 p.m. on Saturday, when family members observed that he had not been seen in and around the house for a while.<\/p>\n<p>The police report that checks were made and when a family member tried to open the door to his room, it was locked.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that the family member peeked through the glass area on the door and observed \u2018Gesh\u2019 hanging from one of the bed posts with a black belt tied around his neck.<\/p>\n<p>The police say the body was removed from the home and a postmortem is to be carried out.<\/p>\n<p>Unconfirmed reports to this newspaper say the teen had asked his parents to attend the Circus in town but was told he could not go.<\/p>\n<p>Checks with the Manning\u2019s School revealed that grief counsellors were called in to assist students, especially those who were close to the deceased.<\/p>\n<p>A teacher at the institution, who noted that she was not in a position to speak on the matter when the <strong>Western Mirror <\/strong>contacted the school, did divulge that the latest incident comes on the heels of another death which took place at the school some weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>The teacher noted that many of the students, specifically in the lower grades, have been affected by the incidents, hence the grief counselling \u201cwas very necessary\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noelita Lawrence Staff Reporter &nbsp; &nbsp; The words \u201cyou cannot go\u201d are reportedly at the heart of an alleged suicide in Chantilly Gardens, Sav-la-Mar, Westmoreland on Saturday, November 4. The victim is 13-year-old Geshan Golaub, otherwise known as \u2018Gesh\u2019, a Second Form student of the Manning\u2019s School. According to information reaching the Western Mirror the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[179,178,177,176],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-gesh","tag-mannings-school","tag-suicide","tag-teenager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}