An early morning call reporting an unconscious and bleeding female at a residence on Norwood Avenue in Long Branch has been determined to be a suicide, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni.

The postmortem examination of June Chronic-Huhn, 73, conducted this morning determined she died as a result of suicide by a single gunshot wound to the chest. Huhn was the wife of former Long Branch Mayor Phil Huhn. The suicide determination was made by Dr. Stephen Melito at the Middlesex County Regional Medical Examiner’s Office.

Long Branch Police Department was dispatched to the Norwood Avenue residence on Friday, April 3, at 12:51 a.m. on the report of an unconscious and bleeding female — June Chronic-Huhn. Police officers arrived at location and found the victim lying on the floor with an apparent gunshot wound.

Medical personnel arrived on scene and the woman was pronounced dead.

— Edited press release from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office

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