All the students, we ran to the back of the room and kind of huddled together. She recalled huddling at the back of the classroom after he pulled the trigger and then turning to look at his body despite her instincts telling her not to. 'I was angry at them for writing that song I thought, you don't know, "You weren't there. King said it was nothing like her friend and that the suicide did not pan out as was suggested. There is also a suggestion that is confused about his sexuality and gender given in the form of him struggling to choose between two pictures - one of a man's suit and the other of a woman's dress.
The video shows him running wildly through woods, screaming and being ignored at home by his parents. In the song, the band describe a boy whose 'daddy didn't give attention' and whose 'mommy didn't care'. 'It's the mothers and the sisters that I want to wrap my arms around and tell them that some day it'll be better,' she said.īrittany King, Jeremy's friend who witnessed his death, said she was angry when Pearl Jam released their song because it did not accurately portray what happened, she said. 'I think of the mothers, I think of the sisters, I think what it'll be said or what opinions will be thought about the student. Today, as she watches more and more mass shootings happening at schools across the country, she says she always wishes she could reach the mothers of those killed. She did not think about the fact that he had committed the act in front of his peers, saying: 'I didn't think about. I was going to pick him up that afternoon at school,' she said. Wanda was at work when she received a phone call to tell her her son had killed himself. Gnashed his teeth and bit the recessed lady's breastĪnd the boy was something that mommy wouldn't wear Jeremy's mother Wanda Crane said nothing of the notoriety it brought her son after his death as she was interviewed this week by local network WFAA. To accompany it, they made a controversial music video which reconstructed his suicide and portrayed him as a frustrated, confused teen who was being ignored at home and bullied at school. Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder, who is now worth an estimated $90million alone, saw a newspaper article about his death and the story made its way onto their 1991 debut album Ten. He was living with his father, his parents were divorced and he had been in counseling at the school which he was also new to. When he returned, he said: 'Miss, I got what I really went for,' and fired a 357-caliber Magnum in his mouth. He left a suicide note with a friend but police never revealed the contents.Īccording to reports which circulated at the time, he got up in front of the class at 9.45am after being told to fetch an admittance slip for missing class. Jeremy Delle shot himself in front of his classmates at Richardson High School in Texas on January 8, 1991. The mother of a teenager whose classroom suicide inspired the Pearl Jam song 'Jeremy' has spoken out 27 years after his death.
Jeremy Delle, 16, shot himself in his high school classroom in January 1991
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