Days after Local 10 News anchor Todd Tongen was found dead in his Florida home, the station reported that the cause of death was suicide.
“We are shocked and saddened by the death of Todd Tongen, but we are choosing to remember how he lived,” WPLG President and CEO Bert Medina said in a statement on the news outlet’s website. “Todd was an incredibly talented journalist. He spent 30 years at WPLG telling the stories of the people in our community and giving so much of himself to this community. He was an incredible person. He lit up the room with his warm personality.”