The father of one of the children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting died by apparent suicide Monday morning at a community center building in Newtown, Connecticut, police said. Jeremy Richman, 49, was found unresponsive at Edmond Town Hall around 7 a.m. Monday, a Newtown Police Department spokesman told HuffPost. Richman is the father of Avielle, a 6-year-old who was among the 20 children killed in the mass shooting. Richman, a neuro-pharmacologist, founded the Avielle Foundation, which has an office in Edmond Town Hall. The senator said he had met with Richman recently to talk about the Avielle Foundation’s work on “better research into the brain’s violence triggers.”

Source: Huffington Post March 25, 2019 15:42 UTC