An official inquest report shows Breaking Bad actor RJ Mitte died by hanging, nearly a month after the 34-year-old disability advocate was pronounced dead.
Page Six obtained the inquest file and reported that the manner of death was suicide. Breitbart News carried those findings after the outlet reviewed the same account of the records.
Mitte was pronounced dead at 1:32 p.m. on October 12. He was 34. His representative had already confirmed a death by suicide in the first public notice, without describing the manner.
The inquest material obtained by Page Six went further on mechanism. It did not close every medical question. An autopsy and toxicology test were requested, but those results were not included in the records the outlet received.
No city, venue, or issuing agency was named in the public write-ups tied to the report. What is firm is the determination itself: hanging, ruled a suicide, made public nearly a month after the pronouncement.
Mitte was best known as Walter White Jr. on AMC’s Breaking Bad, the son of Bryan Cranston’s Walter White. Cranston has said he met Mitte when the younger actor was only 14 and newly cast.
Born with cerebral palsy, Mitte built a second reputation off camera. Cranston described him as a vocal advocate for performers with disabilities and as the head of a philanthropic effort aimed at the disabled community. Co-stars remembered determination on a hard shooting schedule, not excuses.
Cranston posted a long Instagram tribute after the death and did not hide his shock that the manner was suicide.
"I’m in deep despair as I write this tonight. RJ Mitte, my sweet son on Breaking Bad has died.... It is especially devastating to hear that he took his own life. Why? We were texting each other just a few weeks ago, figuring out when we could meet for lunch.... I’ll miss you, son."
That detail lands hard because it is ordinary. Two working actors were still trying to lock in a meal. The messages were recent. The loss was not foreshadowed in the tribute Cranston shared.
Aaron Paul, who played Jesse Pinkman, issued his own statement of grief and turned part of it outward to anyone reading in a dark place.
"I am at a loss. I am heartbroken over this news. RJ, I love you my friend. You will be missed. And to whoever happens to be reading this, please know you are loved, and you are not alone. Always remember that."
Dean Norris, Breaking Bad’s Hank Schrader, wrote on X that he had looked out for Mitte as a young actor on set even though Mitte was not his TV son. Norris called him a sweetheart of a young man and said he was thinking of Mitte’s family.
Away from the set, Mitte’s personal life had markers of a future still unfolding. He had been in a relationship with Kennedy Suarez since 2018. Their engagement was announced in 2025.
In February of this year he posted a Valentine’s message that read like a man taking stock of a steady bond.
"Happy Valentine’s Day. Looking back at these moments with you reminds me how grateful I am for the love and kindness we share. Love transcends all. Go out and share yours."
None of that public record supplies a motive. Cranston’s own post asked “Why?” and left the question unanswered. The inquest findings released through Page Six address manner and cause as hanging and suicide. They do not explain the private despair behind them, and the missing autopsy and toxicology results leave medical detail incomplete in the files obtained so far.
What remains clear is the shape of the life cut short. A child actor with cerebral palsy grew into a working star, a disability advocate, a fiancé, and a colleague still on his friends’ calendars. He was 34 years old on the October afternoon he was pronounced dead. Nearly a month later, the official paper made the manner plain.
Screens and causes do not cancel human pain. The people around Mitte still thought there was time for lunch, and that is the part no credit reel can fix.
