Missing US actor’s body found in park
Vancouver: Missing US actor Andrew Koenig, who starred in the 1980s television comedy Growing Pains, killed himself, his distraught father said on Thursday after the police located his body in an isolated area of a park. “Our son took his own life,” Walter Koenig, who portrayed Lieutenant Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek TV series, told reporters at a late afternoon news conference. Andrew Koenig, 41, was last seen on February 14 when he left the Vancouver apartment of a friend he had been visiting, and he was reported missing four days later after his father, in Los Angeles, received a despondent letter from his son. Koenig’s disappearance caused friends including actress Alyssa Milano, actor Kirk Cameron and comedian Sarah Silverman to post comments online or put out statements seeking information on his whereabouts. On his father’s website, Koenig’s parents posted a long description of their son, including the fact that he had been suffering from clinical depression when he disappeared. —Reuters
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