Crime & Safety
Death Of Former Long Branch Mayor's Wife Ruled Suicide
June Chronic-Huhn, 73, whose husband, Philip, was the former mayor of Long Branch, died Friday, the prosecutor's office said.
LONG BRANCH, NJ — The death of the wife of the former mayor of Long Branch on Friday has been ruled a suicide, the Monmouth County prosecutor's office announced Saturday.
June Chronic-Huhn, 73, who died from a single gunshot wound to the chest on Friday, took her own life, Dr. Stephen Melito of the Middlesex County Regional Medical Examiner’s Office said following an autopsy performed Saturday morning, Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni said.
Police were called to a home on Norwood Avenue in Long Branch at 12:51 a.m. on Friday for a report of a woman who was unconscious and bleeding and found Huhn lying on the floor with an apparent gunshot wound, Gramiccioni said. Medical personnel arrived on scene and she was pronounced dead.
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Huhn's husband, Philip, served as mayor of Long Branch from 1982 to 1990 and later served as the Neptune business administrator, the Asbury Park Press reported.
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