Warning: This post deals with suicide and may be triggering for some readers.
The father of a six-year-old girl killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre has died, apparently by suicide, days after two survivors of another mass shooting took their lives.
Jeremy Richman, 49, was found on Monday inside a Newtown event centre in Connecticut where he had an office.
His daughter Avielle was murdered alongside 20 other children and six adults, in 2012.
After the Florida shooting last year, survivors spoke out against the NRA. Watch below, post continues after video.
“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,” Leiutenant Aaron Bahamonde said in the statement.
The Sandy Hook families’ grief has been compounded by the publicity and conspiracy theories surrounding the tragedy. Mr Richman was one of the relatives suing Infowars host Alex Jones for saying the Newtown shooting never happened.