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Shock, Tragedy at Bend 'Open Mic' Night (w/video)
Teen Keyboard Performer Stabs, Kills Self as Crowd Looks On
More, with video, at link above. The Sunday Mail also has a go at the story:
So - are we sympathetic to his plight, or outraged over his actions?
Teen Keyboard Performer Stabs, Kills Self as Crowd Looks On
BEND, Ore. -- Open mic night ended in a horrific tragedy as 19-year-old Kipp Rusty Walker took his own life Thursday night at a Bend coffee house.
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Strictly Organic's co-owner, Rhonda Ealy, said she was not at the coffee house's open mic night but her staff re-counted what happened.
"It was really unclear at first what was even happening," Ealy said. "You know it is an open mic and it's a performance, people at first thought it was some sort of theater."
Patrons said Walker, who would have turned 20 in a week, stood up, said nothing -- then began stabbing himself in his chest, over and over.
More, with video, at link above. The Sunday Mail also has a go at the story:
A troubled 19-year-old stabbed himself to death on stage at an open mic night after playing a song called Sorry For All the Mess.
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The suicide has split opinion in Bend. Some people are sympathetic to Walker’s plight, others are outraged over his actions.
On the website of newspaper The Oregonian, one reader going by the name of Quashi wrote: ‘As the aunt of a talented young artist who also took his life at the age of 19, I am so saddened that he was not able to reach out to his friends and family for help.
‘We will never know the level of pain he suffered from so deeply that he chose to take his own life. Nor will he ever know the pain felt by those he left behind. This lasts forever.’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-Walker-stabs-death-stage-open-mic-event.html (more here)
So - are we sympathetic to his plight, or outraged over his actions?