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Jacob Gershman covers law for The Wall Street Journal. He previously wrote about New York politics for the Journal and the New York Sun.

You don’t expect something like this to happen, but then when it does, it’s humbling the number of people who want to help,” Tammy Roth said.

The 60-year-old’s death was announced on Saturday after a short but stoic battle with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, an incurable brain disease which also took the life of his sister, Gracie.