Celebrity short takes: Wednesday December 24, 2008
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Published: December 24, 2008
Ricky Martin
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Actor’s brother’s death
ruled a Homicide
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office on Dec. 17 ruled the death of Mark Ruffalo’s younger brother a homicide.
Coroner’s spokesman Craig Harvey says an autopsy determined that someone shot 39-year-old Scott M. Ruffalo in the head. He was found with a gunshot wound early Dec. 1 and died a week later at a hospital after life support was stopped.
Before Ruffalo died, Beverly Hills police arrested Shaha Mishaal Adham, 26, on an attempted murder warrant. They later released her; she has not been charged.
Adham’s attorney, Ronald Richards, who said after her release that Scott Ruffalo shot himself playing Russian roulette, disputed the coroner’s determination.
Mark Ruffalo, 41, has appeared in films such as "You Can Count on Me,” "Zodiac,” "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and this year’s "Blindness.”
The Associated Press
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