Article: PRODIGY DIES FROM GUNSHOT WOUND TEEN 'KNEW HE HAD TO LEAVE,' MOM SAYS.(News)

Byline: Joe Garner, Rocky Mountain News

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

At 3, Brandenn E. Bremmer began to play the piano. At 10, he received his high school diploma. On Tuesday, at 14, he ended his life.

"Our parents are at peace with his death. They have accepted it. They understand he did what he needed to do," said Dawn Davidson-Rivas, 24, one of the prodigy's two older sisters.

"We do not believe Brandenn was suffering from mental illness or that he was depressed," Davidson-Rivas said. "Brandenn was very deeply spiritual. His mind was too powerful for the limitations of the physical world. He knew it was his time ...

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