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Aaron H. Swartz Reddit Co-Founder Commits Suicide

ByIsa Lee

Jan 12, 2013 05:51 PM EST

Aaron H. Swartz computer programmer, co-founder of Reddit, hung him self in an apparent suicide in his Brooklyn, New York apartment.

Swartz was found hung with a belt in his seventh-floor apartment on Sullivan st. according to New York Daily News, He was expected to face trail in February for a controversial computer-hacking case. Police sources confirmed Swartz body has taken to city medical examiner for an autopsy.

The 26 year-old co-author of Rss 1.0, and co-founded social news, and entertainment website Reddit. He was expected to face trail for 2011 breaching Journal Storage (JSTOR) downloading millions of documents. The Reddit co-founder was arrested for computer fraud and illegally obtaining documents, later indicted by the FBI for wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer, and recklessly damaging a protected computer, and could face possible 35 year in prison.

Aaron blogged about his life and interest on his personal blog, even writing about death: "There is a moment, immediately before life becomes no longer worth living, when the world appears to slow down and all its myriad details suddenly become brightly, achingly apparent," he wrote in a 2007 post titled "A Moment Before Dying." his last blog post. His last post on twitter about "Philip Diehl, the most respected U.S. Mint director America's ever had, joins the campaign to #mintthecoin: https://buff.ly/Zp58iM guan ‏@guan @aaronsw what are your top five US Mint directors? Aaron Swartz ‏@guan Diehl, Rittenhouse, Patterson, Ross, Sims.

Aaron was a active participant in Aaron left no note for his suicide,