Suicides Maryland

Gil Greene, a 1990 Orange Lutheran High School graduate and sophomore defensive back at Navy, was found dead in a campus shower stall Thursday in Annapolis, Md. The state medical examiner's office in Baltimore ruled the death a "suicide by hanging." Greene was 21. He played sparingly for Navy last season and was in the process of resigning from the academy, several school officials said.

A teenager awaiting trial in a Maryland murder case that has international implications because a co-defendant is fighting extradition from Israel was found dead in his jail cell. Aaron Needle, 18, was alone in a cell at the Rockville jail when guards found him hanging from a bedsheet he had fashioned into a noose, said Montgomery County Corrections Director Devon Brown. Also charged in the dismemberment and burning of Alfred Tello Jr.

A man facing a 15-year prison sentence for refusing to pay taxes fatally shot himself minutes after calling police to say he was committing suicide, authorities said. William Schuhl, who had not paid state taxes since 1982, was found by police in his garage with a gunshot wound to his head. His wife also faces a prison term for failure to file tax returns.

A soldier facing trial on a charge of raping a fellow trainee at the Army's scandal-plagued Aberdeen Proving Ground was found dead in his barracks, apparently from suicide. The soldier, whose name was withheld pending notification of relatives, was found by his roommate, said Ed Starnes, spokesman for the U.S. Army Ordnance Center and School north of Baltimore.

A policeman told to surrender his gun Wednesday after he was charged with child molestation instead used it to shoot two superior officers and kill himself during a hearing at police headquarters. Officer Calloway Hatcher, 56, was meeting with superiors to determine whether he should be suspended with pay after his arrest Tuesday, police spokesman Dennis Hill said. Hatcher was charged with sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl, a relative.

A soldier facing trial on a charge of raping a fellow trainee at the Army's scandal-plagued Aberdeen Proving Ground was found dead in his barracks, apparently from suicide. The soldier, whose name was withheld pending notification of relatives, was found by his roommate, said Ed Starnes, spokesman for the U.S. Army Ordnance Center and School north of Baltimore.

A teenager awaiting trial in a Maryland murder case that has international implications because a co-defendant is fighting extradition from Israel was found dead in his jail cell. Aaron Needle, 18, was alone in a cell at the Rockville jail when guards found him hanging from a bedsheet he had fashioned into a noose, said Montgomery County Corrections Director Devon Brown. Also charged in the dismemberment and burning of Alfred Tello Jr.

It is temptingly facile to try to make a seamless whole of a man's work, his private life and his death. So it is with Bruno Bettelheim, the trailblazing child psychotherapist and behavioral essayist whose suicide on March 13 came little more than a month after he moved from a Santa Monica condominium to a Maryland retirement home.

A suspect in the shooting of two police officers died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head moments after he killed an FBI agent, the Maryland state medical examiner reported Tuesday. Ralph McLean, 29, of Landover, who was wanted in the unprovoked shootings of two Washington officers in January, had been hit by at least seven shots fired by police and FBI agents, officials said. The fatal shot, though, was fired from the 9-millimeter Beretta stolen from police Cpl.

"THE PROBLEM IS finding a reason to live." The man talking was Bruno Bettelheim, legendary psychoanalyst and child psychologist. He was seated in his favorite chair, a 1960s vintage Danish Modern, in the living room of his fifth-floor Santa Monica condominium. The Pacific Ocean glittered blue and white through the floor-to-ceiling glass doors behind him. He was 86 years old, and although his mind was quicker than that of most 30-year-olds, his body was failing.

A suspect in the shooting of two police officers died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head moments after he killed an FBI agent, the Maryland state medical examiner reported Tuesday. Ralph McLean, 29, of Landover, who was wanted in the unprovoked shootings of two Washington officers in January, had been hit by at least seven shots fired by police and FBI agents, officials said. The fatal shot, though, was fired from the 9-millimeter Beretta stolen from police Cpl.

Gil Greene, a 1990 Orange Lutheran High graduate and sophomore defensive back at the U.S. Naval Academy, was found dead in a campus shower stall at Annapolis, Md. The state medical examiner's office in Baltimore ruled the death Thursday "suicide by hanging." Greene, 21, played sparingly for Navy last season and was in the process of resigning from the academy, academy officials said.

A man facing a 15-year prison sentence for refusing to pay taxes fatally shot himself minutes after calling police to say he was committing suicide, authorities said. William Schuhl, who had not paid state taxes since 1982, was found by police in his garage with a gunshot wound to his head. His wife also faces a prison term for failure to file tax returns.

A policeman told to surrender his gun Wednesday after he was charged with child molestation instead used it to shoot two superior officers and kill himself during a hearing at police headquarters. Officer Calloway Hatcher, 56, was meeting with superiors to determine whether he should be suspended with pay after his arrest Tuesday, police spokesman Dennis Hill said. Hatcher was charged with sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl, a relative.

"THE PROBLEM IS finding a reason to live." The man talking was Bruno Bettelheim, legendary psychoanalyst and child psychologist. He was seated in his favorite chair, a 1960s vintage Danish Modern, in the living room of his fifth-floor Santa Monica condominium. The Pacific Ocean glittered blue and white through the floor-to-ceiling glass doors behind him. He was 86 years old, and although his mind was quicker than that of most 30-year-olds, his body was failing.

It is temptingly facile to try to make a seamless whole of a man's work, his private life and his death. So it is with Bruno Bettelheim, the trailblazing child psychotherapist and behavioral essayist whose suicide on March 13 came little more than a month after he moved from a Santa Monica condominium to a Maryland retirement home.