


In fact, “the percentage of past-year suicide attempts was higher in Black adult populations,” the Suicide Prevention Resource Center said. When it comes to suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts, however, the rates for Black people are commensurately higher than the previous categories. population is approximately double that of Black populations for both males and females,” the Suicide Prevention Resource Center found. Overall, “the suicide death rate for men is more than four times the rate for women in Black populations” and the “suicide death rate for the overall U.S. population, where suicide rates peak in midlife,” according to the Suicide Prevention Resource Center data.īlack males have more than double the suicide rate of Black females, but each group’s rate is significantly lower than that of their white counterparts. This is a different pattern than is seen in the overall U.S. “Among Black populations, suicide rates peak during adolescence and young adulthood, then decline. When looking at the data according to age, Black people have the lowest suicide rates of all age groups, from childhood up through the mid-80s. Short added: “You guys don’t know what people are going through … People are awful … tWitch was amazing, is amazing still - his legacy shall live on.”

“What if you invested something that took your whole life savings, possibly? … It gets rough.” “People made investments, people do a lot of things - this is just a theory,” Short said in a video of himself speaking about tWitch’s death. Short suggested without proof that tWitch died by suicide because he was experiencing money problems. The precise reason or reasons why this occured remain unclear.Īctor Columbus Short, who starred in the movies Stomp The Yard and Homecoming alongside tWitch, offered his own apparently unsolicited conspiracy theory about tWitch’s suicide. We’re told investigators have determined tWitch took an Uber from his home to the motel less than a mile from his home Monday morning, and switched his phone to airplane mode so no one could reach or track him. It’s unclear exactly what he was referring to in the note. Law enforcement sources tell us tWitch’s note, left at the scene of his suicide, was an ambiguous reference to his past challenges. TMZ first reported on tWitch’s suicide note.
