Father of Sandy Hook victim Avielle Richman found dead at Edmond Town Hall after apparent suicide

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Source: Hartford Courant

Father of Sandy Hook victim Avielle Richman found dead at Edmond Town Hall after apparent suicide

By NICHOLAS RONDINONE HARTFORD COURANT MAR 25, 2019 11:26 AM

The father of Avielle Richman, one of 20 first-grade students and six educators killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook School shooting, was found dead of an apparent suicide at Edmond Town Hall early Monday, police said. ... The death of Jeremy Richman, 49, appears to be suicide, police said, but the office of the chief medical examiner is investigating the exact cause of death. ... Richman was found by officers, who were called to the building on Main Street about 7 a.m.

"This is a heartbreaking event for the Richman family and the Newtown Community as a whole, 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," said Lt. Aaron Bahamonde, a spokesman for the department.

Richman, active on issues of mental health, had an office for the Avielle Foundation at Edmond Town Hall. ... Richman just hosted an event at the Edmond Town Hall on March. It was the third one he had organized. After her speech Richman held an audience engagement session. Several Sandy Hook families attended the conference.

"He had such a clear purpose of what he wanted to do to honor his daughter," One of the family members said. "I'm just shocked. I'm sitting in my car right now crying. The foundation was doing really important work and was doing such good things." ... Richman and his wife, Jennifer Hensel, were among the Sandy Hook families who filed a lawsuit against Infowars host Alex Jones, who long claimed on his show that the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax.
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Hat tip, Popehat:

A real feather in the cap of Alex Jones and his fans.

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[fleur-de-lisa]

1. No! How sad.

From the article:

The death of Jeremy Richman, 49, appears to be suicide, police said, but the office of the chief medical examiner is investigating the exact cause of death.

Richman was found by officers, who were called to the building on Main Street about 7 a.m.

“This is a heartbreaking event for the Richman family and the Newtown Community as a whole, 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,” said Lt. Aaron Bahamonde, a spokesman for the department.

Richman, active on issues of mental health, had an office for the Avielle Foundation at Edmond Town Hall.

[mobeau69]

2. So sad.

[hlthe2b]

3. In approx 1 week, two Parkland shooting survivors and now one Sandy Hook victim parent dead...

They have been abused and made to suffer countless times through the likes of Alex Jones and other conspiracists, they see that NOTHING is being done in this country, while NZ acted IMMEDIATELY (following the similar steps of Australia) to deal with gun violence.

I can not express how horrified I am by this--yet we will do NOTHING.

[riversedge]

14. It is a dark time for these survivors and am hoping all who can help are awake to offer help.

[Chin music]

28. +1

People ending their lives bc of Americas inaction. Less computer time, more protests in the street. Occupy our Inalienable rights.

[blm]

4. So sad.

And so mad at the level of cruelty being pushed at these families.

[ck4829]

5. ...

[madaboutharry]

6. May he rest in Peace.

Horrors like Sandy Hook never end for the victims left behind.

[area51]

7. Damn it.

[Aristus]

8. They're going to need to dig a 10th level of Hell for all those assholes who screamed

"Crisis actors!"

[Botany]

9. Sadness

[LovingA2andMI]

10. While America "Debates" If A Criminal So-Called President...

Should be Impeached or not, people are literally dying because that So-Called President equally will do nothing to stop the weapons that took their Children, Family or Friends lives.

America is LITERATELY AND FIGURATIVELY NOT GREAT, at ALL.

RIP....

[IronLionZion]

11. RWers have been absolutely monstrous to the parents and survivors

[JudyM]

13. Their moral hypocrisy is epic, of biblical proportions.

[ck4829]

23. +1

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. Oh God, it's like an epidemic.

Three people connected to mass shootings just this week.

[mopinko]

22. i have been afraid of this since the first one.

suicide can be contagious. i hope that people are on the look out right now for people who have been affected by any shooting incident.

[cp]

15. ....

[shenmue]

16. Rest in peace

[Politicub]

17. These recent suicides are heartbreaking

All three of them are connected to school shootings.

The effects of school shootings will reverberate for generations.

[ck4829]

25. Indeed

[Guilded Lilly]

18. No words will suffice. n/t

[defacto7]

19. Sometimes no matter how hard we try to rise above the din..

and the pain it still catches up with us.

[oldsoftie]

20. I guess THIS was an "actor" too???? Assholes.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

31. Alex Jones will declare him "not dead", just bad acting.

If I fall down dead, and do not roll off, then the Earth must be flat, right?

[BarbD]

21. How many hearts have been broken!

Every time I walk on Fairfield Beach I pass a playground dedicated to one of the angels slaughtered at Sandy Hook. It always brings tears to my eyes and makes me re-dedicate myself to the work ahead of us in stopping gun violence.

[ck4829]

24. The pain goes on and on...

[lunatica]

26. This just makes me cry.

The NRA and people like Alex Jones deserve the worst kind of karma.

If there’s an afterlife I hope Jeremy is with his daughter Avielle now.

[Maxheader]

27. Ah jeeze...

rip jr....

[sinkingfeeling]

29. Such a shame. These suicides are just more victims of crazy shooters.

[ck4829]

30. Yes

[wendyb-NC]

32. Oh no, not another senseless tragedy.

This is so sad. May their spirits, all, find peace. My heart goes out th their loved ones, that they find strength to keep on and peace. .

[PandoraAwakened]

33. My Heart Is Breaking

Had the unfortunate occasion of having to interact once with the bloviating, money-grubbing, domestic abuser otherwise known as Alex Jones.

Same psyche profile as tRump: Malignant Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). In the end, just another sad white man of privilege always playing the victim while joyfully and often maniacally victimizing others---even to the point of alternatingly making fun of murdered first-graders and then turning right around and saying these same children never existed. Truly a sick man.

On a different topic, I'm currently writing a story about a fictional character, a bombastic radio personality originally misdiagnosed with manic-depressive disorder who in fact has NPD. As a young man, he starts out on the side of good, infiltrating and videotaping secret enclaves of a certain political patriarchy where some truly sick shit is going on.

However, the older he gets and with each step closer he takes to the fire, the more his disease takes hold of his mind and the more he finds himself becoming the very essence of the evil he had initially sought to expose. Eventually, as is common to persons afflicted with NPD (a disease for which there is no cure), he becomes delusional and physically violent, even to his own family, which he inevitably loses.

However, because he has a radio platform to financially sustain him even as he moves from delusional outbursts to full-blown dementia, he becomes an actual danger to society and ends up inflicting horrific harm. No one will do anything about him because he is protected by the very same power structure he had sought to expose long ago who now own him as a tool for their own agenda.

Anyway, long story short (after much more character development on others whose lives he affects), one of his own children, plagued by years of abuse and emotional neglect from a narcissistic father who the son is nonetheless enamored with, ends up killing him with one of the many semi-automatics hanging throughout the radio agitator's home and studio (as a reminder to himself to incite gun violence amongst his listeners to ensure his sponsors keep feeding the cash cow his diseased mind tells him he so desperately needs above all else).

The son ends up incarcerated and the story ends in a therapy session where a psychiatrist is trying to get him to speak about his father. The young man looks at the doctor and says, "That's fake news. That man never existed at all."


May all who are stalked by such monsters find their own peace and happiness. Please reach out in these trying times to those most vulnerable amongst us.

[Talitha]

34. ....

[pazzyanne]

35. Sad! No words.

[Luciferous]

36. That is heartbreaking. I can't even imagine losing a child, especially that way.

[sakabatou]

37. :(

[Delphinus]

38. ...