With his wife, Jennifer Hensel, he created the Avielle Foundation to support research into brain abnormalities that could be linked to violent behavior. “Compassion is the ability to feel somebody else’s suffering, to empathize,” Mr. Richman, a neuroscientist, said in a video for the foundation. The police and the state’s medical examiner’s office were investigating the death, Lieutenant Bahamonde said. Some of the police officers who reported to Edmond Town Hall on Monday had responded to the school shooting, Lieutenant Bahamonde said. “This is devastating to our community,” Lieutenant Bahamonde said.

Source: New York Times March 25, 2019 15:37 UTC