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Friday, April 06, 2012

Stephen Gant Suicide: Vanderbilt Baseball Signee Dies of Apparent Suicide

Stephen Gant, a 19-year-old right handed-pitcher who was one of the country’s top high school baseball prospects, has died of an apparent suicide.

The Riverside High School senior was found dead Tuesday from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, The Jackson Sun reports.

No flip remarks - just a sad story.

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) Posted: April 06, 2012 at 04:33 PM | 4 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
  Tags: high school, obituaries, prospect reports

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   1. Willie Mayspedes Posted: April 06, 2012 at 06:46 PM (#4099735)
Tragic
   2. depletion Posted: April 06, 2012 at 08:12 PM (#4099764)
My condolences to Stephen's family and friends. I wonder what was going wrong. Good looking kid, obviously a great athlete, even if he blew out his arm or quit baseball Vanderbilt is a great school so he'd have a bright future.
   3. Dave Spiwak Posted: April 07, 2012 at 06:18 AM (#4099846)
Just a week or two ago a girl on the Stanford volleyball team committed suicide.
   4. Joe Kehoskie Posted: April 07, 2012 at 04:03 PM (#4100014)
Sad story. With just the basic facts — baseball, Vandy, etc. — he seems like the type of kid with whom most guys would want to switch places.

I've had two friends who killed themselves, and both seemingly had it all. I guess you just never know what type of battles people are fighting. As #2 said, my condolences to his family and friends.

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