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As family and friends deal with the death of 10-year-old Aquan Lewis, details are slowly beginning to emerge from the fog of uncertainty surrounding his alleged suicide. Lewis was found hanging from a hook in a bathroom at Oakton Elementary School in Evanston; he was pronounced dead at Children's Memorial Hospital early yesterday morning. Among the details we now know are that Lewis had threatened to kill himself earlier in the day after he was lectured by a teacher. Authorities say they found Lewis hanging by his shirt collar from a hook in a stall with a footprint on the toilet seat. more ›