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  Police identify West Knoxville suicide victim
  Posted April 1, 2014 at 9:15 a.m.
  KNOXVILLE — A police spokesman Tuesday identified a 23-year-old man who had committed suicide in his ex-girlfriend's West Knoxville home.
  The Knox County medical examiner ruled Gregory Dean Ramsey of Knoxville committed suicide after he entered his ex-girlfriend's house in the 4900 block of Tenwood Drive, according to Knoxville Police Department spokesman Darrell DeBusk.
  Ramsey shot himself once with a semi-automatic handgun, DeBusk said.
  Ramsey had fired the handgun at least twice Sunday before entering the Tenwood Drive home, DeBusk said. The ex-girlfriend was not in the residence, leaving Ramsey as the only occupant.
  Police were alerted at 11:56 p.m. Sunday of the incident. Officers tried to communicate with Ramsey, but got no response. Trained police negotiators got the same nonresponse when trying to reason with Ramsey, DeBusk said.
  After a three-hour standoff, the Police Department's Special Operations Squad entered the home and found Ramsey dead in a back bedroom, DeBusk said.
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  luvs2paint writes:
  Deepest sympathy to his family. God rest his soul.
  I don't understand the part about him having fired the gun twice before he entered the home.
  I also always wonder when someone this young chooses suicide what could have been so wrong with their life that they'd choose to die. I know things can seem overwhelming, but at that age nothing should seem so impossible to overcome or resolve?
  It is almost always drug or alcohol related. People have problems due to their bad choices, those get exacerbated by drug/alcohol use, and one day while high, they make the worst choice of their lives.
  More handgun use. Kudos NRA!
  All of you commenting on here have no idea what you are talking about. Spud - I am sorry your life is such that you can not have empathy for another human being's suffering. Young people are especially prone to suicide because some are not emotionally mature enough to handle the stress of being bullied at school, failing to meet expectations at home or no home life whatsoever. Suicide is the third leading cause of death in ages 10-24 in Tennessee and close to 1000 people choose suicide every year. Sitting at home in your controlled environment you have no clue how a teenager's every move can be tweeted or texted to thousand's of people. Phoenix 1 - what makes you think this was drug or alcohol related. Do you really think people have problems because they made bad choices? Tell that to somebody that is terminally ill. Tell that to someone who lost his family because he lost his job because of sickness or injury. Mark-Caldwell - it's a lot easier to kill yourself by hanging or drugs than by the stupid guns you hate!
  "Mark-Caldwell - it's a lot easier to kill yourself by hanging or drugs than by the stupid guns you hate"!______________________________________My goodness Sauce. I hate handguns?
  By the way, suicide by firearms is the number one method in the good old USA. Maybe that's because it's easy. Check it out.
  http://lostallhope.com/suicide-statis...
  in response to Sauce:
  Gosh, I wonder how we who grew up in the 50s and 60s survived.
  I actually do have empathy (and sympathy), and I do understand about emotional immaturity. I wasn't born old, I've made a lot of bad decisions in my life, and I've known what it is like to feel there's no reason to keep going through the day to day struggles. And I know the impacts social media can have now on the lives of anyone of any age. You've raise a lot of issues, although the part about arguing that people don't have problems because they make bad choices is a little thin. A lot of people have problems because of a pattern of bad choices, and choosing not to change what they're doing that continues to lead them into a downward spiral. And you've somehow taken this far away from my initial question. How at 23 anything could seem so insurmountable that you'd choose death, and what could have changed - specific to this incident - that might have prevented it.
  So somehow you think banning gun ownership is going to prevent someone from committing suicide? Or are you just chiming in with a totally irrelevant comment on this article because it included the use of a gun?