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One of two injured mothers in Monday's deadly crash in Brooklyn that claimed the lives of the women's two young children is a Tony-winning actress who also appeared in the TV show "The Americans," a police source familiar with the investigation told NBC 4 New York. Lori Bordonaro reports. (Published Wednesday, March 7, 2018) 
  
 What to Know Dorothy Bruns, 44, was found dead in her NYC home sometime Tuesday afternoon of an apparent suicide, a senior law enforcement official said 
  
 Broadway star Ruthie Ann Miles was injured in the Brooklyn crash along with her friend; both of their young children were killed 
  
 Miles, who was expecting a baby girl with her husband Jonathan Blumenstein, lost the unborn baby due to injuries from the March crash 
  
 The woman charged in the Brooklyn crash that killed Broadway star Ruthie Ann Miles' young daughter and unborn child has died of an apparent suicide, a senior law enforcement official briefed on the case tells NBC 4 New York. 
  
 Dorothy Bruns, 44, was found dead in her Staten Island home Tuesday afternoon, the senior law enforcement official said. Authorities say pills and a note were found nearby. 
  
 Miles was walking with her friend and their two young children in Park Slope on March 5 when Bruns allegedly blew through a red light and plowed into the group, killing both children — Miles’ daughter, Abigail, and the friend's 1-year-old son, Joshua. All four were found on the pavement with various injuries. 
  
 Miles' unborn daughter initially survived the crash, but the actress miscarried a month before she was due. The loss was related to injuries from the crash. 
  
 Bruns was eventually indicted in connection with the case; she was arrested at her Staten Island home May 3 on a 10-count indictment charging her with manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, assault and other crimes. She had faced 15 years in jail. 
  
 Bruns told police at the time she had medical issues — and though her license had been suspended she had not been criminally charged in the case until about two months after the crash. Prosecutors said she had suffered a seizure at the time of the collision, and had been driving in direct defiance of a doctor's orders following a hospitalization less than eight weeks prior. That hospitalization stemmed from yet another car crash — that time into a parked vehicle. 
  
 Police are investigating Bruns' death, the senior law enforcement official said. ||||| NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The woman police say drove her car through a Brooklyn crosswalk and killed a 1-year-old and 4-year-old child, leaving several others injured, has been found dead in her Staten Island home. 
  
 Dorothy Bruns, 44, of Staten Island, told investigators she suffered multiple sclerosis and had a seizure before running the red light on March 5. 
  
 Police were called to her Staten Island address for a wellness check after a friend said she had not heard from her. Officers found Bruns’ body and evidence she had ingested pills, and she was pronounced dead at the scene. 
  
 A note found near body made reference to “I don’t want to live like this anymore.” 
  
 Earlier this year, Bruns had been indicted by a grand jury on charges of manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and assault. 
  
 Police said she was driving her sedan westbound on Park Slope’s 9th Street near 5th Avenue when her vehicle struck a group of pedestrians, including a pair of mothers – each with a child in a stroller. 
  
 Killed were 1-year-old Joshua Lew and 4-year-old Abigail Blumenstein. 
  
 The girl’s mother is Tony Award-winning actress Ruthie Ann Miles. 
  
 In the past, medics had been dispatched to Bruns’ home numerous times following 911 calls that she needed emergency medical help. A background check of her driving shows she had about a dozen traffic violations against her since 2016, including speeding and running red lights. 
  
 Prosecutors said a doctor told Bruns more than once not to drive. ||||| The woman whose car struck and killed two children, including the daughter of Broadway star Ruthie Ann Miles, has been found dead. 
  
 A friend checked on Dorothy Bruns, 44, after not hearing from her, an New York City Police Department rep tells PEOPLE. When police arrived, Bruns was unconscious and unresponsive in a bedroom with no obvious signs of trauma. She was pronounced dead on the scene by emergency medical responders. 
  
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 Bruns died at her Staten Island residence by an apparent suicide, a second NYPD spokesperson tells PEOPLE. 
  
 She died of an overdose, according to a third police source, and a note was found “expressing [her] desire to no longer live.” 
  
 In March, Bruns allegedly hit and killed two pedestrians in Brooklyn: Miles’ 4-year-old Abigail Blumenstein and a 1-year-old named Joshua Lew. Miles, who was seven months pregnant, and Lew’s mother Lauren, a friend of Miles, were injured. 
  
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 Two months later, Miles’ family lawyer Ben Rubinowitz announced that Miles and her husband Jonathan Blumenstein had lost the baby they were expecting. They had named the child Sophia Rosemary Wong Blumenstein. 
  
 Dorothy Bruns at the scene of the accident Todd Maisel/NY Daily News/Getty 
  
 Earlier in May, a Brooklyn grand jury indicted Bruns. She was arraigned on charges of manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and assault, a prosecution source told PEOPLE at the time. 
  
 The police source says that Bruns had only posted bail in the case last month. 
  
 Police sources previously told PEOPLE that Bruns claimed she experienced a seizure at the time of the March crash. Sources alleged that after running the red light, Bruns crashed into parked cars and dragged Lew’s stroller halfway down the street while the baby was in it. She had previously been ticketed for driving through red lights. 
  
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 “Abigail was excited to be a big sister,” a source told PEOPLE in March. “She was the brightest little spirit. Every time you were around her, your heart couldn’t help but shine. She had the sweetest laugh and the loveliest personality. She was very much like her mother.” 
  
 “Ruthie was a wonderful mother. She always put Abigail first and was really dedicated to spending time together,” the source continued. “The two had a very tight bond. They were inseparable.” 
  
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 In August, Miles returned to the stage for the first time since the tragedy in the revival of The King and I, reprising the performance that won her a Tony Award in 2015. 
  
 “She is singing like an angel and commanding the stage with a heavenly force,” her costar Kelli O’Hara wrote on Twitter. “An inspiration to all. I knew you would want to know.” |||||Summary:

– The woman charged with hitting and killing two young children in a Brooklyn crosswalk in March was found dead Tuesday in an apparent suicide, NBC New York reports. Dorothy Bruns, 44, was charged in May with crimes including manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, and assault and was facing 15 years behind bars. A friend went to check on Bruns after not hearing from her, and police ultimately responded to her Staten Island home and found her unresponsive, People reports. Pills and a suicide note were found nearby. CBS New York reports the note said something to the effect of, "I don't want to live like this anymore." Bruns, who had a number of driving citations and accidents in her past, had been explicitly instructed by a doctor not to drive due to medical issues when she allegedly ran a red light and hit a group of pedestrians, including pregnant Broadway star Ruthie Ann Miles, her friend, and their children. Bruns said she had a seizure that caused the accident. Both children—Abigail Blumenstein, 4, and Joshua Lew, 20 months—were killed, and Miles ended up losing her unborn baby just before her due date due to injuries suffered in the crash. Miles returned to the stage for the first time after the crash in August, reprising her role in The King and I for which she won a Tony in 2015. (The driver who hit and killed three siblings as they crossed to their school bus says she didn't realize it was a bus.)