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| Teenager obsessed by suicide kills self in UT dorm room A University of Tennessee student whom authorities said apparently was fascinated by suicide killed himself inside his dormitory room Saturday night during the homecoming football game. The teenager's identity was not immediately released pending notification of relatives. His body was found just after 7:30 p.m. hanging from a rod in the closet of his Morrill Hall dorm room, police said. The student's roommate found the hanged teenager as he returned to the 20th Street dormitory after attending the UT homecoming game, according to the Knoxville Police Department. Also found inside the room were large amounts of suicide literature, according to police. There also was a suicide topic on the screen of the computer inside the room, police said. KPD Investigator Ken Slagle said the student's roommate indicated the teenager was obsessed with the idea of suicide. Further details were not immediately available. From The Knoxville News-Sentinel - Nov. 8, 1998 issue McCORMACK, MARK LEE - was a 1997 graduate of West High School. A member of the football, swimming, and track teams; he also participated in the NJROTC for three years. He was involved in the Sea Cadets program for two years and a member of Troop 6 of the Boy Scouts of America in which he attained the rank of Star Scout. He also served as an acolyte at the Episcopal Church of the Ascension for five years. He was currently a sophomore at UTK where he was a member of the SGA Technology Committee. He had been employed previously at Mayo's Garden Center and was employed part-time at the UTK Office of Undergraduate Academic Affairs. Mark, known for his generosity of spirit and kindness to others, leaves his mother, Nancy Turner McGlasson; his brother, Luke McCormack; and his father, Edward Michael McCormack. He also is survived by his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Mark McGlasson, Lynchburg, Va.; his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Reed Rittenberry, Gallatin, Tenn.; his maternal great-aunt, Mrs. Wallace McKenna of Lynchburg; and great-aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Jack P. McGlasson of Shelbyville, Tenn.; great-uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Frank Ferrell of Gallatin; aunt and uncle, Dr. and Mrs. Charles A. Wilson of Baton Rouge; uncle, Ron McCormack of Knoxville; and cousins, Nancy Elizabeth Wilson and Charles Algeo Wilson of Baton Rouge. He will be missed by many friends, especially by his boyhood best friends, Blair H. Huchins and William G. Brownlow; and by teachers, Knoxville "family," and colleagues. A memorial service will be held at the Episcopal Church of the Ascension at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, November 10. The Reverend Ladson F. Mills III and the Reverend Gordon Temple, of the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, and the Reverend Anne Bonnyman of the Trinity Episcopal Church, Wilmington, Del. will officiate. The family will receive friends in the Parrish Hall immediately following the service. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to the Mark Lee McCormack Fund at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, the Development Office, 605 Andy Holt Tower, 37996. From The Knoxville News-Sentinel - Nov. 9, 1998 issue
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resident dies in apparent suicide Erin Hudson / Staff Writer A UT male student apparently hanged himself in his fourth-floor closet of Morrill Hall on Saturday afternoon, Knoxville Police said. The male, whose name has not been released, was found at approximately 7:30 p.m. by his roommate who had returned from the UT-University of Alabama-Birmingham football game. KPD Sgt. Roger White said the roommate cut the rope and tried to revive him, but the student was already dead. The student sent out several e-mails to students saying he would kill himself and would be dead by the time the e-mails were read. Police said the roommate reported the student to be in a good mood when he left to go to the game. KPD had previously been called in because the student had attempted to cut his wrists. He had mutilation marks on his body. The roommate said the student had been seeing a counselor and had been talking on a suicide-prevention chat room. The UT Police Department, in charge of releasing the student's name, is still attempting to notify the student's family. From The Daily Beacon (UTK student newspaper) - Nov. 9, 1998 issue |
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