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PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) —
Although police have now revealed how Robin Williams committed suicide, the Oscar-winning actor's fans, friends and even family continue to struggle to understand why someone who spread so much joy throughout the world could find so little in his own life that he decided to stop living.
Williams, who made no secret of his decades-long struggles with depression and substance abuse, killed himself by fashioning a noose out of a belt and hanging himself, authorities said Tuesday.
The frenetic funnyman who starred in such films as "Mrs. Doubtfire," ''Good Will Hunting" and "Good Morning, Vietnam," had announced only last month that he was re-entering a 12-step program to get his life back on track after months of nonstop work. His publicist confirmed after he died that he had been suffering in recent weeks from a serious case of depression.
COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) —
A suburban Detroit man said Monday that he was afraid when an unknown woman showed up on his porch before dawn one morning last year, but that he refused to be a victim in his own home.
"I wasn't going to cower in my house," Theodore Wafer told jurors at his trial for the Nov. 2 killing of 19-year-old Renisha McBride, who was drunk but unarmed.
In this photo provided by Dawson Jope, center, Dawson poses with the daughter of his host family, Nancy Bartholomew, left, and her cousins Andala, right, and Solomon, front, in Bo, Sierra Leone. The 25-year-old from Carmichael, Calif., is one of hundreds of Peace Corps volunteer being evacuated from three West African nations affected by the worst recorded Ebola outbreak in history. Photo: Courtesy Dawson Jope, AP
CARLA K. JOHNSON, AP Medical Writer
CHICAGO (AP) —
Families in the United States expect to be reunited as early as this weekend with some of the more than 300 Peace Corps volunteers evacuated from three West African nations affected by the worst recorded Ebola outbreak in history.
"We did really have faith in the Peace Corps that if things would become dangerous they would do what they're now doing," said Mirna Jope of Carmichael, California, whose 25-year-old son called home Thursday after learning he would be leaving Sierra Leone.