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Camden parents become mental health advocates following son's death


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Tomeka Holmes (center) leads family and friends in a balloon release in her son s memory at a Camden vigil on April 14, 2021. (April Saul for WHYY)
It had been a torturous time for the parents of 20-year-old Nah’Jole Frazier.
The young Camden man a talented rapper known as Lil Zeek took a solo trip to Atlanta in March to bolster his music career.
In his absence, Gary Frazier Jr. and Tomeka Holmes received soul-crushing phone calls about their son, who had attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia.
The first was from a Florida police precinct informing them he’d been arrested and was being sent to a psychiatric facility. Then, after they’d bought him a plane ticket home and he’d missed the flight, a hospital in South Carolina phoned to say he was being held there for mental health reasons. ....

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