Jeremy Richman, 49, was found at the Edmond Town Hall, a movie theater and event space in Newtown, at about 7 a.m., according to a statement from the Newtown Police Department.
“This is a heartbreaking event for the Richman family and the Newtown community as a whole,” Lt. Aaron Bahamonde said in the statement. “The Police Department’s prayers are with the Richman family right now and we ask that the family be given privacy in this most difficult time.”
Police with the state’s medical examiner’s office were investigating the death, according to the statement.
Richman was the father of Avielle Richman, one of the 20 children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012.
The news of his death came after two students who survived the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, also died in apparent suicides.
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This article originally appeared in The New York Times.