The family of a young man was left in shock yesterday morning after his lifeless body was found hanging in a Lightbourne Avenue home he shared with his aunt, brother and daughter.
Police reported that they were alerted to the alleged suicide around 9 a.m.
Police said responding officers discovered no visible signs of injury to the man's body, which according to family members was found hanging by a belt in a bedroom closet.
As The Nassau Guardian arrived on the scene, concerned family members and neighbors crowded the small green house.
The victim's aunt, Marvain Johnson, identified the man as 34-year-old Breco Armbrister, who moved into the home to assist with his grand aunt last year.
Johnson said she encouraged Armbrister to come and live with her after learning he was suffering from anxiety and depression.
"He was an early riser, and so, when I didn't see him around the house I thought he was just sleeping late," she said at the home, off Farrington Road.  "I was about to leave to go to work and I went to the bedroom door and said 'you sleeping late, it's time to get up'.
"When I pushed the door open he was just there -- just hanging there -- and I screamed, dropped everything and went to get his brother to tell him come cut him down."
According to Armbrister's family, he lost his job last year, but his uncle, Jeff Armbrister, said despite talking to him on several occasions he never revealed the cause of his depression.
He explained that his nephew was a very quiet person who kept to himself.
"He never, ever got himself into any problems.  He was a reclusive person but before that (losing his job) he was a normal person, working and quite happy.
"We tried to get it out of him by talking and talking to him.  I personally talked to him for hours upon hours," Armbrister said.
"I would leave work just to try and get him out of it."
Johnson also said the family tried to assist Armbrister in getting help.
Armbrister spent nearly a month in Sandilands Rehabilitation Centre between September and October last year, according to his relatives.
But Johnson said his mood did not appear to improve.
"He was still in that state of depression, where he would mumble to himself," Johnson said.
"If he saw a lot of people around he would stop and act normal but he was always in a paranoid mood thinking someone was out to get him."
Armbrister had an 11-year-old daughter, his family said.

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