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Detroit police are investigating the suicide-death of a 7-year-old boy who was found hanging from a bunk bed with a belt around his neck.

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According to MyFox Detroit, police say they responded to a call from the boy’s 14-year-old sister who found him unconscious. Emergency crews performed CPR and transported him to Henry Ford Hospital where he later died.

Police believe the boy’s death was a suicide, although the Wayne County Medical Examiner’s Office will make the determination about cause of death.

It is believed the young man was being bullied at his elementary school.

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