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Today's Picture: Chicago's Michael Scott Suicide Controversy

November 18, 2009 RSS Feed Print

By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country

Pastor Charles Robinson speaks about the suicide ruling in the death of Chicago Public School Board President Michael Scott at Chicago's Holy Starlight M.B. Church. More than two dozen ministers and activists gathered to question the medical examiner's ruling that Scott, who was found in a Chicago river on Monday with a single gunshot wound to the head, committed suicide. They're calling on state and federal authorities to conduct investigations. Chicago police are still investigating.

(AP Photo / M. Spencer Green)

The Rev. Charles Robinson speaks about the suicide ruling in the death of Chicago Public School Board President Michael Scott at Chicago's Holy Starlight Missionary Baptist Church today. More than two dozen ministers and activists gathered to question the medical examiner's ruling that Scott, who was found in a Chicago river Monday with a single gunshot wound to the head, committed suicide. They're calling on state and federal authorities to look into the death. Local police are still investigating.

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I do not believe it was sucide. Chicago has some of the most rotten individuals in politics that we will never find out the truth. His family should have first conducted their own autopsy before the city got involved.

Ella Fritzgeralfd of IL 9:04PM November 21, 2009

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Dan Gilgoff covers religion for U.S. News & World Report. He is the author of The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War, and is a former politics editor at beliefnet. E-mail Dan at godandcountry@usnews.com.

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