Katie Holmes‘ brother-in-law has passed away.

Joseph Jeffrey Fretti — the 48-year-old husband of Holmes’ older sister Tamera — has died unexpectedly of heart failure.

According to Radaronline.com he was found dead by a family friend Sunday in the Sarasota, Fla., home of his mother Shirley. He had taken his two young children to visit his 76-year-old mother.

Fretti was the owner of a funeral home in Holmes’ hometown of Toledo, Ohio.

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