15-year-old shoots self with father’s gun

The 15-year-old son of former Presidential Candidate of The Citizenship Initiative (TCI) party, Rhonda Lam allegedly committed suicide at his Triumph, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home on Wednesday.
Dead is Ahren Singh. He was a student at a private school and lived with his father – an enforcement officer at the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA); his mother – a teacher, and two sisters and one brother.
According to Police, the teen’s father had left home for work about 06:30h, leaving his licensed firearm with a number of matching rounds at the top of a built-in closet, which is located in his bedroom on the lower flat of the house. Police, in a statement, said that one of the teen’s sisters, was inside her room when her brother came to give her a piece of paper and left.
She subsequently followed her brother and saw when he went into his haversack, took out an object, and closed the door behind him. Shortly after, she heard a loud explosion. She immediately informed the babysitter who rushed upstairs and made the gruesome discovery. The Police were immediately called and a doctor was also summoned to the scene. The teen was pronounced dead by the doctor. His body was later escorted to the Lyken Funeral Home, where it awaits a post-mortem examination.
If you or anyone you know is feeling depressed and possibly contemplating suicide, please call the Guyana Inter-agency Suicide Helpline, which operates 24 hours and is organised by the Guyana Police Force. Telephone – 223-0001, 223-0009, 223-0818 and cellphone – 600-7896, 623-4444.