Montgomery Community Media

The “End of Life Option Act” passed in Maryland’s House of Delegates 74 to 66 after an hour-long emotional debate Thursday. The bill would allow terminally ill adults in Maryland to obtain a prescription that would allow them to end their own lives. According to The Baltimore Sun, Thursday was the “fourth attempt to pass the […]

Beginning in early March, local theaters will air BTheOne contest winners public service announcements videos highlighting suicide prevention efforts. The winning PSA’s will air at Regal and AMC theaters in Montgomery County throughout the month of April as well. The two winning PSA’s were submitted by Northwood High School students Sophia Geiger, Rowan Arnold and […]

The man who was convicted for killing his pregnant fiancée died by suicide in his cell at a Montgomery County lockup Wednesday, a Montgomery County police statement said. Thierry Kinshala Nkusu, 35, had used a bed sheet to suspend himself, police said. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore ruled the cause of […]

“I would like her to be involved in what’s going on to get active with her peers and get involved in what’s going on around the County,” said parent Faith Gill. Like Gill’s daughter, dozens of students from across the county gathered at Veteran’s Plaza in Downtown Silver Spring Wednesday evening for a youth town […]

A seventh grade student at Colonel E. Brooke Lee Middle School in Silver Spring died Monday from what Montgomery County Public Schools officials say are self-inflicted injuries. Detectives from Montgomery County Police-Major Crimes Division are investigating the death as a suicide. At about 2:29 p.m., 4th District officers and Fire Rescue Personnel were dispatched to […]

UPDATED, Feb. 9, 2:37 p.m. Police said the man fatally shot himself. The situation is over, according to police. UPDATED, Feb. 9, 11 a.m. – Montgomery County Police say the man who barricaded himself on the property of  a landscaping company in Silver Spring is an employee of that company, Brookeville Landscape Supply. Police report that […]

UPDATED Oct. 4 – Police have released more information in the death of Potomac resident Carolyn Mattingly. According to police, the medical examiner has ruled that Mattingly’s death is a homicide and her cause of death is a gunshot wound. Police have also released more information about the death of Andrew Racca. According to the medical examiner, […]

The Maryland Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and its forensic investigators have ruled the April death of Adam Arndt as suicide and the manner of death for Michelle Miller as undetermined. The investigation has concluded. On April 8, Montgomery County police began an investigation into two deaths that occurred in a residence in the […]