Mark Ruffalo's Brother Dies From Gunshot Wound

Posted at 1:00 PM Dec 09, 2008

By Kenny Herzog



It wasn't incredibly well-publicized (after all, we were all very busy contributing to the calculated Britney Spears comeback), but in very sad news, Mark Ruffalo's 39-year-old brother Scott, who was a hairstylist, died from a gunshot wound to the head he sustained on December 1.

A chief suspect has been taken into custody in attempted murder charges for the shooting, and Mark, not surprisingly, has made no public comment.

You can't help but feel like you know a guy (or at least have some indication of his character by the roles he chooses and how he inhabits them) a bit better than if you just passed him on the street after you've seen him in intimate human dramas like You Can Count On Me and We Don't Live Here Anymore. (The latter of which I happened to watch and become incredibly moved by in the past few days.)

Good to see gun control's not out of hand or anything in this country. At least Plaxico Burress had the decency to only cause peril to himself.