Family And Tavarez Family Case Studies

Decent Essays
• I live here with my daughter, brother and Tavarez.
• My brother has several friends who committed suicide over the summer.
• They seem to have been put out by their families.
• I saw Tavarez this morning at approximately 5 or 6 a.m. he was in by brother’s room I was leaving to go pick up a friend of mine from Smithfield.
• I noticed Tavarez had a plastic bag or two over his head.
• I made him take the bags off but, he acted as if he didn’t know what he was doing.
• Tavarez has been asking me the same questions all day.
• Tavarez told me he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
• I took my brother to work and dropped my daughter off it was about 2:30 p.m. when we left.
• Tavarez was the only person in the house.
• I got home at

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