Teen Double-Suicide Victims, Kept Apart by Parents, Buried Together
Two young lovers who drowned themselves rather than let parents keep them apart were reunited in death Friday, buried in the same plot, one casket on top of the other.
“Why have you left us?” Xiomara Flores wailed in Spanish as she neared the casket of her 13-year-old daughter, Maryling. She cried and fainted into her husband’s arms.
Maryling and Christian Davila, 14, leaped to their deaths in a weed-choked canal late Saturday or early Sunday, leaving behind suicide notes that told of a love forbidden by Maryling’s parents.
Their bodies were found Tuesday. Neither teen-ager had known how to swim.
When the caskets were lowered into the ground at Woodlawn Park Cemetery, Maryling’s was placed on top of Christian’s. Their sobbing schoolmates and families tossed carnations, roses and goodby notes onto the caskets.
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