Mia Farrow’s son Thaddeus killed himself: Medical examiner

The 27-year-old, paraplegic son of actress Mia Farrow fatally shot himself in the torso before being found in his vehicle along a Connecticut road, the state medical examiner’s office ruled Thursday.

Thaddeus Wilk Farrow was found seriously wounded in his vehicle in Roxbury on Wednesday, about eight miles from his mother’s home in neighbouring Bridgewater. He was later pronounced dead at a hospital.

The medical examiner’s office determined the cause of death was suicide during an autopsy. State police had said there was no criminal element to the death.

Mia wrote in a Twitter posting on Thursday that her family is devastated by Thaddeus’ death.

“He was a wonderful, courageous person who overcame so much hardship in his short life,” she wrote. “We miss him. Thank you for the outpouring of condolences and words of kindness.”

Thaddeus contracted polio in Kolkata, India, and was paralysed from the waist down. The actress, a child polio survivor herself, adopted him in the mid-1990s.

State police said Thaddeus lived in Torrington, about a 28-mile drive from his mother’s home. He had lived at his mother’s property until a few years ago, according to public records.

In 2000, Thaddeus and his mother participated in a global summit on polio eradication at the United Nations in New York.