URBANDALE — Officials have found no links between the suicides of two students at a school in suburban Des Moines.
Authorities say a 12-year-old sixth-grader at Urbandale Middle School killed herself on Feb. 15. The suicide of an eighth-grade girl was reported on Monday.
No evidence has been found that either girl was bullied, and Superintendent Doug Stilwell says the girls didn’t know each other.
He said the district is in shock and that, “We’d like to think that one or two suicides isn’t a pattern.”
Stilwell says counselors from the high school were brought in to help the middle school students and also says district officials are discussing the idea of bringing in professional speakers to discuss suicide with students.