{"id":88676,"date":"2025-12-10T04:44:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/88676\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T04:44:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:44:06","slug":"death-of-mitt-romneys-sister-in-law-ruled-as-a-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/88676\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of Mitt Romney&#8217;s sister-in-law ruled as a suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">If you or a loved one is feeling distressed, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. The crisis center provides free and confidential emotional support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Call or text 988 or chat at <a href=\"http:\/\/988lifeline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">988lifeline.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">LOS ANGELES- The death of former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/news\/mitt-romneys-sister-in-law-found-dead-near-shopping-center-santa-clarita-area\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sen. Mitt Romney&#8217;s<\/a> sister-in-law, whose body was found at the bottom of a five-story parking garage in Los Angeles County, has been ruled a suicide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner confirmed Tuesday that Carrie Romney, 64, sustained &#8220;blunt traumatic injuries,&#8221; and she was pronounced dead at the scene. The manner of death was deemed a suicide.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Romney was found dead on Oct. 10 around 9 p.m. at the Valencia Town Center mall in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/los-angeles-county\/santa-clarita\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Santa Clarita<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTTV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-3646484b=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Mitt Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts and a U.S. senator from Utah, was the Republican presidential nominee in 2012 but lost to Democrat Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Carrie Romney was married to Romney&#8217;s brother, George Scott Romney. According to court records, George Scott Romney filed for divorce in June.<\/p>\n<p data-v-3646484b=\"\">Following his sister&#8217;s death, Mitt Romney issued a statement saying, &#8220;Our family is heartbroken by the loss of Carrie, who brought warmth and love to all our lives. We ask for privacy during this difficult time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story came from the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner and City News Service.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/los-angeles-county\/santa-clarita\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-3646484b=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Clarita<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you or a loved one is feeling distressed, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. The crisis center&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1184,48,52,51,47,137,50,49,100,16188,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-88676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-headlines","11":"tag-la-news","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-county","14":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","15":"tag-los-angeles-news","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-santa-clarita","18":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}