Richard Boodram as a boy.

Richard Boodram, 16, of 392 Haslington Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara, took his own life by hanging early yesterday morning.

He was discovered by one of his two sisters about 6:00h when she opened her bedroom door.

He was hanging from a rafter in the kitchen.

Boodram was employed at Guyana Furniture Manufacturing Limited and seemed to be himself on Monday night when he retired to bed.

“We don’t know why he did this and we had no problems,” relatives cried yesterday.

He had a little tiff with his seven year-old sister on Monday night and was scolded by his mother.

Boodram had confided in his mother about a girl he liked, but said the young lady had shunned him and did not want to speak with him.

Police are investigating.