Man kills himself outside his burning home in Beverly
SUN-TIMES MEDIA WIRE January 31, 2012 7:44AM
A man was found fatally shot in an automobile in the driveway of a home at 10257 S. California, that had caught fire Tuesday morning in the Beverly neighborhood. January 29, 2012. | Brian Jackson~Sun-Times
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Updated: January 31, 2012 10:00AM
An elderly man who lived alone and apparently had been in poor health was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound outside his home just after the two-story building was set afire Tuesday morning in Beverly, authorities said. The fire started shortly before 6 a.m. Tuesday in the brick home at 10257 S. California Ave., Chicago Fire Departments spokesman Richard Rosado said. When firefighters arrived, they heard popping noises — possibly from ammunition in the home, authorities said. The fire was extinguished by about 6:30 p.m., but as firefighters searched the side of the building, they found the man dead in a car from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The man’s name wasn’t immediately released. No one else was hurt.
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