Murder
Huffman was murdered by a thief in San Diego, California. After bringing cookies to a wrap party for the show Of Mice and Men at the Old Globe Theatre, he spotted 16 year-old Genaro Samano Villanueva, who had broken into a Canadian couple's motor-home. He chased Villanueva into Balboa Park, where Villanueva stabbed him twice with a screwdriver. In 1986, Villanueva, an illegal alien from Mexico and a student at San Diego High School, was sentenced to 26 years in prison. Huffman was set to begin work on the television miniseries North and South the following week.
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