Colorado vet's death offers glimpse into suicidal mind
June 24, 2018
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Hours after being discharged from a mental health treatment facility, 38-year-old disabled veteran Lee Cole hiked into a wilderness area in southwest Colorado Springs with a backpack and the cellphone on which he planned to record his final message.
Most of that roughly four-minute Facebook Live video, posted publicly the evening of April 23, shows a wobbly pan around a bramble-choked gully, with only a fleeting careen over Lee's expressionless face.
Turn up the volume, though, and his pain is achingly clear.
"I'm gonna die tonight," he says, in a taut and breath...
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