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Report: Suicide Linked to Chicago Slayings
Mar 10, 8:25 AM (ET)
CHICAGO (AP) - Chicago police sent detectives to a Milwaukee suburb to investigate a suicide, and a newspaper said the man had left a note claiming responsibility for the slayings of a federal judge's mother and husband.
The Chicago Tribune reported on its Web site Thursday that U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow had rejected a lawsuit brought by the man, who shot himself in the head during a traffic stop Wednesday in West Allis, Wis.
The newspaper, citing unidentified sources, said the man's suicide note, claiming responsibility for last week's slayings, included details not released to the public. The note said the legal judgment had cost him "his house, his job and family," the paper quoted a source as saying.
Lefkow found the bodies of her husband, Michael Lefkow, 64, and her mother, Donna Humphrey, 89, in the basement of her Chicago home when she returned from work Feb. 28.
The Tribune said on its Web site that the man who killed himself was Bart Ross, whose last known address was on Chicago's North Side.
Ross filed a lawsuit against the University of Illinois over cancer treatment in the early 1990s, the newspaper said. Lefkow rejected it on a technicality in 2004.
Investigators discovered .22-caliber shells in the man's van, the same caliber as the casings found in Lefkow's home, the Tribune reported. They also found a list in the van of people who Ross thought had mistreated him, including judges, the newspaper said.
for more on how this relates to the revenge violence comment and mentality see our 1/22/05 post
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