Yesterday's Weapons Forums

Been here in Kotzebue since the 4th...

Everything's been rolling along smoothly with visiting, getting Art requests, planning out our next couple months, putting some $$ away, and enjoying the scorching hot 60*+ days with boat rides and Caribou hunting for others, kids in new clothes, stores and the arcade, 24 hour sun, cable TV, internet, ect. ect. and then.....everything went sad.

We stayed the night at the wifes sisters house (Rose), when I woke up this morning,about 6, all packed and gasse'd, with a cop comming through the door.
Seems 15 minutes before, my wifes Nephew David had tried to hang himself off a bridge, and snapped the rope, and was missing after going underwater.

An hour later they found his body, and have sent it off to look for foul play.
We had just seen him go out, and not in a bad mood or way.

I later talked with his girlfriend, and she had dove into the water to get him, and he had realy held her , hard enough to almost drown her as well.
Seems he didn't know how to swim.

Kinda like chomping a cyanide pill while shooting yourself I'd guess.

Sure crushed his family, and totally unessarry.

Ed, sorry to hear of this incident. My condolences to the family.