Sawyer Sweeten, Everybody Loves Raymond actor, dead at 19
Child star appeared with sister, twin brother on long-running sitcom
Sawyer Sweeten, who played one of Ray Romano's twin sons in the CBS comedy Everybody Loves Raymond, has died. He was 19.
Sweeten committed suicide, his sister Madylin Sweeten, said in a statement. Radar Online reported he was visiting family in Texas, where he is believed to have shot himself on the front porch.
Madylin, and Sawyer's twin brother Sullivan, all played the children in the sitcom's fictional Barone family.
'Reach out'
In a statement Madylin, who is four years older than Sawyer, said the family was requesting privacy.
"We beg of you to reach out to the ones that you love," she said. "Let them have no doubt of what they mean to you."
Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton, Brad Garrett, Doris Roberts, Peter Boyle and Monica Horan also starred in the comedy.
"Sawyer Sweeten was a funny and exceptionally bright young man," tweeted Heaton. "He is gone from us far too soon."
Sawyer Sweeten's other listed credits were a 2002 movie starring Randy Quaid, and appearing in one episode of the TV show Even Stevens.
IMDB listed no credits after Raymond left the air.
With files from CBC and Reuters