Troubling news out of Virginia: The state’s suicide rate hit a 13-year high in 2011, according to a new report from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

During that year, 1,067 Virginians committed suicide, as WNEW reported. Handguns were most commonly used in the deaths. The report cited “unemployment, relationship problems and lack of access to mental health resources” as possible reasons for the rise.

As WWBT noted, the report’s release comes after three suspected suicides were recently committed in the Richmond, Va. area. Police believe suicide may have been the reason behind the Spotsylvania County plane crash that occurred Monday, as well as a car crash Tuesday into the James River.

Here’s more sad information from the report, via the Associated Press:

Males were 3.4 times more likely to commit suicide than females.

Whites committed suicide more than five times more than Hispanics, four times more than Asians and three times more often than blacks.

Suicides were not more prevalent during holiday months. Instead, April and October were the months with the most suicides.

The majority of suicides fell on Mondays.