Family: Bullying to blame in Wyoming 13-year-old's suicide

[TransitJohn]

CHEYENNE — Alexander Frye was usually quiet and shy around other 13-year-olds. He was slow to make friends at school, his family said, and he was often teased and bullied by classmates.

With adults, Alex was a different person: He was talkative, made friendships easily and impressed even longtime Union Pacific veterans with his encyclopedic knowledge of trains.

About 200 of those adults packed the American Legion Post 6 hall on Wednesday for a police debriefing on Alex, who shot himself in a field south of the Union Pacific railyards early Sunday morning, according to the Laramie County coroner.

The discovery of Alex’s body on Tuesday brought a tragic, abrupt end to three days of searching by hundreds of volunteers.

Alex’s family said a memorial service is scheduled for Saturday afternoon at Schrader Funeral Home in Cheyenne. An exact time has not been set.

Family members said they saw no warning signs that Alex was thinking of suicide, though his stepsister said that she believed his suicide was a direct result of being repeatedly bullied at school.

http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/family-bullying-to-blame-in-wyoming--year-old-s/article_f75be98c-cde6-5b00-8834-b5b04a805925.html?mode=story#ixzz1jGLftkp5

[bluestateguy]

1. Was it anti-gay? It does not say

But what it does look like is that he may have been singled out for not being sufficiently macho and masculine, regardless of gay or hetero.

I wonder if a way can be found to find the bully ring leader(s) and then prosecute them, and have the law just basically ruin their life so that they can't get into college and they end up cleaning toilets for the rest of their lives.

[CANDO]

9. The ring leaders are the

Religious Right. James Dobson, Pat Robertson, John Hagee, etc.

[Swede]

2. Another sad story.

I hope we can end this somehow.

[xchrom]

3. 13 years old. Nt

[Odin2005]

4. OMG!

[Brickbat]

5. Oh, kid.

Godammnit.

[Initech]

6. Argh I am so sick of this happening.

[Zorra]

7. That poor little boy. And his family.

This senseless, malicious bullying of children, of anyone, for any reason, has to stop.

We seriously need to rethink our religious, cultural, societal, and community priorities. and make a concerted effort to replace the entire political, social, and economic culture with a wider sense of human community.

[patrice]

8. .

[riderinthestorm]

10. Oh dammit!! No! Please no! This just must stop! That poor beautiful boy!! My heart breaks... nt

[Zorra]

11. _^_