The suicide of a gay 14-year-old boy is under investigation as Italian police try to determine if he was bullied or pushed to the point of taking his own life, authorities said Tuesday.

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Police are concerned that the boy who jumped from the roof of his family’s apartment building sometime on the night of August 7 may have been driven to such drastic action by taunters.

In a letter to his father, the boy asked that 12 friends, including 10 girls, be told about his death, but said nothing about bullies.

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