Chicago Schools Leader Used Gun, Commits Suicide

[Zappa]

CHICAGO — Autopsy results show that the Chicago Board of Education president committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.

The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office released Michael Scott's autopsy results Monday. Police officers who rushed to the Chicago River early Monday in response to a report of a body being spotted found Scott dead.

Family members say they appreciate the outpouring of support and a memorial service will be announced soon.

Scott was a longtime Chicago leader. In August, Scott said he'd been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury investigating allegations of politically influenced admissions to top schools.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who used to serve as head of Chicago schools, says Chicago "has lost a great leader."

Interesting how the media never mentions anything about the gun.
Did he have a license for it? Is there even such a thing in chicago?
If this was Joe Average Chicagoian, out-of-work, down on his luck, losing his house, posession of the gun would be the story. How'd he get it, and what more can the law do to prevent this kind of thing from happening.
But, since this guy was a politically connected leftist insider, nobodys asking where the gun came from.

 

[Woodstock]

Something isn't right here. Did he still have a gun in his cold, dead (wet) fingers, or did he just float into view with a hole in his head? I know, I know. I'm just the suspicious type - nothing fishy ever happens in Chicago.

 

[CRSIII]

I wonder if he shot himself in the back of the head.
This is Chicago after all.

 

[theGringo]

I wonder if he shot himself in the back of the head.
This is Chicago after all.

Vince Fostered?

 

[soloman02]

Vince Fostered?

Who?

 

[CRSIII]

Dead men tell no tales.
Mabey he truely sleeps with the fishes.

 

[freedom2012]

Vince Fostered?

What's with the conspiracy? People shoot themselves in the back of the head every day.

 

[CRSIII]

Who?

This might take a while.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Vince_Foster

 

[Zappa]

Vince Fostered?

I was thinking that too.
That's another case where the gun. and how he got it, became an non-issue with the media. Nobody asked "how can this happen in DC, with the most restrictive gun laws in the nation?".