Art Student’s Fake Suicide (Explained?)

The UCLA art student who last year faked his suicide with a gun he had carved out of wood has come forward to tell his story. “Deutch, now 26, also knew that gunplay could upset fellow students and get him in trouble with campus authorities. But in his first comments on the incident, he says he never dreamed, as he got up to perform in UCLA’s graduate art annex in Culver City, that his phantom gunshot would ricochet and cause the departure of two UCLA professors, roiling the campus for several months.”