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Representative Dan Johnson, a first-term Republican, took his life on a bridge in Mount Washington, Ky., according to Sheriff Donnie Tinnell of Bullitt County, who spoke to the local WDRB television station. The county coroner, Dave Billings, said that Mr. Johnson ?died of a single gunshot wound? and that it was ?a probable suicide.? An autopsy is to be conducted Thursday morning.

A Kentucky state representative accused of molesting a teenage girl killed himself on Wednesday, just two days after the allegations were made public, the authorities said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/13/u...y-suicide.html