WTNH News Channel 8 / News / 1999

	Champion High School Wrestler Commits Suicide (Wilton-AP) _ A state champion wrestler and honor student at Wilton High School has died after dousing himself with gasoline and setting himself on fire, police said. Samuel Hingston, 17, died Wednesday after sustaining third-degree burns over 85 percent of his body. Police told The Hour of Norwalk that Hingston filled a container with gasoline, swallowed some of it, then doused himself with the rest before setting himself on fire. He was found in the bathroom of his house about 3 a.m. Wednesday and died at the Westchester Medical Center in New York that afternoon. Hingston won the state Class M championship in wrestling this season, losing just one match all year in the 160-pound weight class. He also was a tri-captain of the football team and a member of the baseball team. Hingston, who has an older sister and a twin sister, moved with his family from Woodstown, N.J. to Wilton in April. At his former high school in New Jersey, Hingston was a member of the National Honor Society, an officer of Amnesty International and a National Merit Scholar. Norwalk Hospital held a "stress debriefing" for fire and emergency personnel who responded to Hingston's house Wednesday morning. Social workers and counselors were on hand Thursday to help grieving students at Wilton High School. Today's News Page. WTNH Home Page. ©1999 WTNH/WTNH-DT A LIN station.

Champion High School Wrestler Commits Suicide
(Wilton-AP) _ A state champion wrestler and honor student at Wilton High School has died after dousing himself with gasoline and setting himself on fire, police said.

Samuel Hingston, 17, died Wednesday after sustaining third-degree burns over 85 percent of his body. Police told The Hour of Norwalk that Hingston filled a container with gasoline, swallowed some of it, then doused himself with the rest before setting himself on fire.

He was found in the bathroom of his house about 3 a.m. Wednesday and died at the Westchester Medical Center in New York that afternoon.

Hingston won the state Class M championship in wrestling this season, losing just one match all year in the 160-pound weight class.

He also was a tri-captain of the football team and a member of the baseball team.

Hingston, who has an older sister and a twin sister, moved with his family from Woodstown, N.J. to Wilton in April.

At his former high school in New Jersey, Hingston was a member of the National Honor Society, an officer of Amnesty International and a National Merit Scholar.

Norwalk Hospital held a "stress debriefing" for fire and emergency personnel who responded to Hingston's house Wednesday morning. Social workers and counselors were on hand Thursday to help grieving students at Wilton High School.

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