Mia Farrow's son Thaddeus killed himself, medical examiner's office says
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Nov. 14, 2013: US actress and UNICEF Goodwill ambassador Farrow pauses during a news conference at the UN in Geneva. (Reuters)
Connecticut authorities have ruled the death of Mia Farrow's 27-year-old son, Thaddeus Wilk Farrow, a suicide, saying he shot himself in the torso.
State police said Thaddeus Farrow was found in his vehicle Wednesday afternoon in Roxbury with a life-threatening injury and was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
The state medical examiner's office determined the cause of death Thursday after an autopsy.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Representatives for the actress did not return messages.
State police say Thaddeus Farrow lived in Torrington, about a 24-mile drive from Roxbury. Public records show he had lived at his mother's property in nearby Bridgewater until a few years ago.
The actress adopted Thaddeus Farrow, who contracted polio in an orphanage in Kolkata, India, and was paralyzed from the waist down.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Mia Farrow has 11 living children – four biological and seven adopted. Thaddeus’ reported death would be the third adopted child she has lost.
Thaddeus Farrow spoke about being adopted Mia in a 2013 interview with Vanity Fair.
"It was scary to be brought to a world of people whose language I did not understand, with different skin colors,” he said. “The fact that everyone loved me was a new experience, overwhelming at first.”
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Associated Press contributed to this report.