Examiner Staff Writer
May 28, 2010
On this day, May 28, 1998, comic-actor Phil Hartman was shot to death by his wife in their Encino, Calif., home.
Hartman rose to fame after joining "Saturday Night Live," and was perhaps best known for lampooning President Clinton.
On the night of his death, Hartman threatened to leave his wife, Brynn, if she continued to use drugs. He then went to bed. While he slept, Brynn went to the bedroom and shot him in the head. She was drunk and had taken cocaine.
When police arrived, they removed the couple's two children from the home and heard a gunshot. Brynn had killed herself.
Hartman is one of a string of SNL cast members who died tragically, including John Belushi and Chris Farley.
-- Scott McCabe
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