January 25, 2014 at 8:19 am
#803637
WSB
Keymaster
I don’t know of any stats aside from what we have archived from the past few years, since generally we hear about something like this if it happens. When reporting on the Thursday incident, I looked up the recent archives. It happened twice in 2013, in January and May. No one in 2012. One person in 2011 (despite hours of police negotiations). No one in 2010. One in 2009. Three in 2007. I googled around to see if anyone was missed … not foolproof since the misguided (and, I believe, dangerous) suicide taboo keeps these deaths from being acknowledged most places … but did not find any others. – TR