Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Suicide Is Reported in Hearn Death
Coroner Finds Youth Shot Himself Twice
A verdict of suicide in the death of Charles Hearn, 18-year-old college student found dead with two shotgun wounds Tuesday, will be returned, Dr. Charles S. Boone, deputy parish coroner, said last night.
The body was found in a small clearing in a wooded area near the Pines sanatorium west of Shreveport.
Hearn resided at 3120 Exposition avenue with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Hearn, Sr.
Funeral services for Hearn will be held at 4 p.m. today at the Queensborough Baptist church, with the Rev. Ira Peak, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Forest Park cemetery under the direction of Wellman's funeral home.
The body will remain in the chapel of the Wellman home until 2 p.m., when it will be taken to the church.
Survivors include his father, a Shreveport mail carrier; his mother, and three brothers, Thomas W. Hearn Jr., Robert Hearn and the Rev. George Hearn, pastor of the Laurel Heights Baptist church.
Pallbearers will be Roy Dale Evans, George Bailey, Bobby Smith, Boyce Treadwell, Buddy Hyde, Harvey Allen, Joe Allen and Raymond Greer.
Thursday, February 22, 1951