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(57,564 posts) Tue Feb 3, 2015, 11:01 AM Feb 2015

Students found dead in apparent murder/suicide - Ohio and Louisiana

Both stories are old enough to be ineligible for LBN.

Two Law Students Found Dead In Possible Murder-Suicide

By Staci Zaretsky Feb 2, 2015 at 12:01 PM

The legal profession is fraught with victims of mental illness. Law students in particular struggle with depression at an alarmingly high rate, which can lead to troubling consequences ranging from domestic violence to drug addiction to alcoholism to suicide.

This weekend, two second-year students from Tulane Law School — Sara LaMont, 25, and Wajih Mazloum, 28 — were found dead in an apartment in New Orleans, Louisiana. Mazloum and LaMont were a couple, and police say that Mazloum shot and killed LaMont before turning the gun on himself. This tragic news comes hot on the heels of five Tulane student deaths last semester, three of whom committed suicide.

Here’s additional information on the disturbing news, from the Times-Picayune:

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When I Googled to find out when this happened, I ran into this:

Miami U. student dead in apparent murder/suicide

Updated: 10:41 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015 | Posted: 11:24 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015

By Lauren Pack

Staff Writer

OXFORD — Two young adults, one a Miami University student, are dead from apparent gunshot wounds in what detectives believe was a murder-suicide at an Oxford apartment complex.

Oxford Sgt. Jon Varley said the Butler County Coroner will determine the cause of death following an autopsy, but confirmed detectives are not looking for any suspects in the shooting and there is no reason to believe anyone else had a hand in the deaths.

“We do not believe this was part of any ongoing threat,” Varley said. “It is an isolated incident. With this even nobody else is in danger.”