India, Sept. 27 -- A heartbreaking tragedy struck the Orem community when a Canyon View Junior High School student died on a class field trip on Wednesday. The ninth-grade student died after shooting himself with a loaded gun, which has been ruled a suicide, according to the Utah County Sheriff's Office.

The Alpine School District mobilized resources to offer emotional support and counselling to students who witnessed the horror involving their classmate at South Fork Park in Provo Canyon, as reported by FOX 13.

Eric Monson, child psychiatrist at the University of Utah, said, "Typically, when people are exposed to traumatic experiences, they will experience increased fear, being on edge." He shared that they can experience "nightmares, ...