Monday, January 14, 2013
Police identify 52-year-old John Marcus Lundberg of Yorkville as the victim of a self-inflicted gunshot.
The Kendall County Sheriff's Office identified the man who publicly committed suicide at the Kendall County Courthouse last week as 52-year-old John Marcus Lundberg of Yorkville. A motive for the public display though has yet to be determined, said Deputy Craig French, spokesman for the Sheriff's office. "That's something that we're still looking into," he said Monday afternoon. Video surveillance from the Kendall County Courthouse showed Lundberg putting a shotgun to his head and firing a single shot Friday afternoon at approximately 1:46 p.m. Lundberg, who was by himself at the time, parked his car on the far west side of the parking lot, according to police. "At this point, we do not have any record that he had any criminal or civil …
Friday, January 11, 2013
The man, who has not been identified, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, according to police
Sheriff’s police are investigating an apparent suicide after a man was found dead in the parking lot of the Kendall County Courthouse in Yorkville. Deputy Craig French said police responded to the parking lot at 1:46 p.m. after receiving a 911 call regarding a man with a gun. “When deputies arrived, they found a man on the ground who appeared to have suffered a gunshot wound to the head,” French said in a press release. Police said surveillance video from the courthouse showed the man standing with a shotgun just outside his car, which was parked on the far west side of the lot. French said the man put the shotgun to his head and fired a single shot. “The man was by himself at the time … he took his life,” the press release said. No one …
Thursday, September 6, 2012
An evidence recovery technician shows data that indicates Kimberly Vaughn was interested in fixing her marriage while her husband may have been getting ready to leave it.
It was a tale of two laptops Thursday, as an evidence recovery expert detailed the contents unearthed in Kimberly and Christopher Vaughn's computer hard drives. In Kimberly's Compaq, Lisa Calarese testified, were Google searches that turned up such topics as romance tips and ways to save a failing marriage, and 133 pages of content that included the word "husband." Conversely, in Christopher's Dell were Google searches for such topics as gentlemen's clubs, making moccasins and wilderness living, and 129 pages of emails exchanged with an online friend about plans to forge a new life in Canada. How much it foretells of a collision course that would end on a frontage road near Channahon in June 2007 will be up to a Will County jury to decide…
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Dr. Larry Blum said the Oswego mother had a "toxic" level of an antidepressant in her system at the time of her death; her children were killed by a gun fired less than two feet away.
The two Vaughn sisters, 12-year-old Abigayle and 11-year-old Cassandra, were sitting side-by-side in the back seat of the family's SUV when someone fired bullets into each of their heads and torsos, a forensic pathologist testified Wednesday. Their brother, 8-year-old Blake, was shot in the head and under the arm -- the latter likely the result of him raising his arm in a defensive motion, Dr. Larry Blum said. The murderer is either their father, Christopher, eager to shed his boring suburban existence for a life in the Canadian wild, or their mother, Kimberly, suicidal over her crumbling marriage and perhaps under the influence of a "toxic" level of an antidepressant drug. Christopher Vaughn, now 37, is on trial for the murders, which …
Thursday, September 8, 2011
National Suicide Prevention Week is recognized Sept. 4-10.
Depression continues to have a stigma that often keeps those in need from realizing help is available or ashamed to seek assistance. Every 15 minutes, someone dies by suicide. The most recent numbers show that in 2007, it was the 11th leading cause of death in the United States. The week of Sept. 4-10 is Suicide Prevention Week. Suicide takes the lives of teens and adults, men and women, of all races and cultures, with roughly 1 million people dying worldwide every year from suicide, according to the American Association of Suicidology. Suicide rates among youths, ages 15 through 24, have increased more than 200 percent in the last 50 years, according to the association. Suicide is preventable and most suicidal people want to live, though…
Please Don't
7:38 am on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
This is my boyfriend's grandfather, and I barely have a right to extrapolate on it. Please don't turn this into something it's not. God knows that Grandpa Lundberg deserves to rest in peace without people making up their own reasons. more ›