Investigators determined that the death of June Huhn, 73, was a suicide, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccionni said.
Officers responding to the Norwood Avenue home found Kuhn dead from a gunshot wound to the chest, the prosecutor said, adding that her husband, 75, was home when they arrived
His detectives investigated along with Long Branch police.
Philip Huhn was mayor of Long Branch from 1982 to 1990 and later worked as city manager in Keansburg and then as business administrator in Neptune Township.
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