Robin Williams dies aged 63 from an apparent suicide

Actor Robin Williams has died aged 63 from an apparent suicide, police in California said tonight.

A spokesman for the Marin County Sheriff’s Department in California said: ‘On August 11, 2014, at approximately 11.55am, Marin County Communications received a 911 telephone call reporting a male adult had been located unconscious and not breathing inside his residence in unincorporated Tiburon, California.

‘The Sheriff’s Office, as well as the Tiburon Fire Department and Southern Marin Fire Protection District were dispatched to the incident with emergency personnel arriving on scene at 12pm.

‘The male subject, pronounced deceased at 12.02pm has been identified as Robin McLaurin Williams, a 63-year-old resident of unincorporated Tiburon, California.

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