Electra's depressed half-brother commits suicide

The half-brother of pin-up Carmen Electra has committed suicide at his home in Florida.

Rod Mark, 43, shot himself through the heart last week after losing a battle with depression.

The tragedy is the latest in a long line of family deaths for Electra - her mother and sister died within a month of each other in 1998.

The model-turned-actress, who hardly knew Mark, says: "I was sad to hear the news. My heart goes out to his family."

Electra, whose real name in Tara Patrick, and Mark had different fathers.