If the three deaths were connected, no one on the island could say exactly how. The first, a 15-year-old, killed himself at his home near the high school in February 2007. The second, a 17-year-old ”˜A’ student and an athlete, committed suicide last October.
The third, a 16-year-old found dead at home in January, may have been an accidental death, not a suicide. None had been good friends.
Yet they were all islanders, talented and well-liked students in a high school of 400 that had not had a suicide for more than 40 years.
The small year-round community on Nantucket Island, deeply shaken, turned to outside experts for help.