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Laredo police report dozens of suicide attempts and several deaths; committee urges better tracking and outreach
Summary
At a March 25 Suicide Prevention Committee meeting, Sergeant Ediberto Abalos reported an internal tally covering Feb. 26–March 25 that lists 13 attempted suicides and two deaths; he also referenced a separate count of five suicides in 2026. The committee endorsed centralized tracking, heat‑map analysis and expanded outreach.
At the March 25 meeting of the City of Laredo Suicide Prevention Committee, Sergeant Ediberto Abalos of the Laredo Police Department’s Mental Evaluation Outreach Unit presented recent incident data and after‑action summaries, saying his team compiled a spreadsheet covering Feb. 26–March 25 that lists 13 attempted suicides and two deaths in that interval.
Abalos read details from multiple responses, including an incident on March 3 in which officers found a 39‑year‑old man at a residence who was later pronounced dead after an apparent self‑inflicted gunshot wound. Police recovered a handgun and a cell phone at the scene; detectives and the…
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