WAKE COUNTY, N.C. (WTVD) -- It's been one year since Wake County deputy Anthony Garcia helped save a teenager's life. He said it was late at night when he saw a 15-year-old boy hanging over the ledge of the Neuse River.

"He was visibly upset, and he was crying a lot," Garcia said. "I just knew that I needed to be very personable."

Garcia and another deputy used crisis intervention training, or CIT, to help stop the teenager from dying by suicide.

The incident is one of many that Garcia said he's experienced in Wake County over the past few years.

In North Carolina, state data shows one child dies by suicide every week . Nearly half of the children had experienced a recent crisis.

"A lot of people have anxiety and some challenges that they're dealing with in their personal life, and

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