Suicide Note

BEVERLY - In a phone conversation on the afternoon of Feb. 24, Beverly police Officer Jason Lantych offered to meet Hamilton police Sergeant Kenneth Nagy. Lantych said he would discuss the relationship he had with Nagy's wife - but only "in a public place so he wouldn't get shot. " "Nagy just laughed it off," according to a State Police report. Details of the violent confrontation that followed between the two men and Katherine Nagy's relationship with Lantych are contained in investigative reports released Thursday by Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett and the Beverly Police Department.

SAN DIEGO — Junior Seau's death has been ruled a suicide by the San Diego County medical examiner's office. An autopsy Thursday confirmed that the former NFL linebacker died of a gunshot wound to the chest, the medical examiner's office said. Officials said they were awaiting a decision by the family on whether to turn over Seau's brain to unidentified outside researchers for study. Seau died Wednesday in his home in suburban Oceanside. Police Chief Frank McCoy said Seau's girlfriend reported finding him unconscious with a gunshot wound to the chest and lifesaving efforts were...

OMAHA - In the first surveillance images released of a teenage gunman's shopping mall rampage, the shaggy-haired assailant can be seen raising an assault rifle to fire in front of a department store mannequin. Police released three still images yesterday, two days after 19-year-old Robert A. Hawkins killed eight people and himself at the Von Maur store at Westroads Mall. The images at first show Hawkins walking into the mall unarmed, wearing glasses and a black zippered sweat shirt over a black T-shirt with a white logo.

FOXBOROUGH - As news of Junior Seau's death continued to cast a dark shadow over offseason workouts at Gillette Stadium Thursday, several Patriots, including team owner Robert Kraft and coach Bill Belichick, shared their memories of the popular linebacker. Kraft, fighting back tears, read a note that Seau sent him a few weeks after Myra Kraft passed away last year, and recalled fondly Seau's pregame motivational speeches and postgame embraces. Players spoke about Seau's leadership, his energy, his compassion, his passion for football, and his tendency to call everyone "Buddy.

ATKINSON, N.H. -- Brad Delp, the lead singer for the band Boston who killed himself last week, left a note in which he called himself "a lonely soul," police reports released yesterday indicate. Toxicology tests by the state medical examiner's office showed that Delp committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. Police said Delp sealed himself in a bathroom with two charcoal grills sometime between 11:30 p.m. March 8 and the next afternoon, when his fiancee, Pamela Sullivan, found him on the bathroom floor, his head on a pillow and a note paper-clipped to his shirt.

LIVERPOOL, Pa. — A high school freshman who committed suicide by running into the path of a tractor-trailer last week left behind a note that said he wanted to draw attention to the problem of bullying, his mother said yesterday. Brandon Bitner, 14, complained about teasing and name-calling when he was in middle school, but after he entered Midd-West High School in Middleburg this year, he began concealing his pain from school officials and his family. “He didn’t want to burden other people with his problems,’’ his mother, Tammy Simpson,...

Rachel Weisz has become an exquisite camera artist. In a single shot, she can open up a whole movie. "The Deep Blue Sea" has a scene like that. Weisz sits at a table in a London restaurant whose patrons are all singing Jo Stafford's "You Belong to Me. " Some of these people are seated at her table, including Freddie Page (Tom Hiddleston), the RAF pilot she loves, and they know the song and sing it with real fervor. It means something to them. It's uniting them, soothing them, seducing them.

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. - A mother strangled her 8-year-old daughter in 2009 after the girl refused to take a bath, prosecutors said yesterday on the opening day of the woman's second-degree murder trial. Kimberly Fry's lawyer said her client never intended to kill her daughter. Fry, 38, broke down in Washington County Superior Court as assistant Attorney General Stephen A. Regine displayed for jurors a photo of her daughter, Camden, during his opening statements. "Her mother, on Aug. 10, 2009, strangled her and murdered her," Regine told the jury of seven men and...

NEW YORK — A Yale University junior left a suicide note in his dorm room before heading to New York, where he apparently plunged to his death by jumping from the Empire State Building, police said yesterday. Cameron Dabaghi, 21, from Austin, Texas, jumped from the 86th floor observation deck Tuesday during evening rush hour. His note said he was sorry and he would be jumping from either the George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River in upper Manhattan, or the Empire State building, police said.

The death of rock guitarist Ronnie Montrose, who formed an eponymous band in the 1970s and played with heavy hitters such as Van Morrison and Herbie Hancock, has been ruled a suicide. The San Francisco Chronicle reports ( http://bit.ly/Hqcl67) the San Mateo County coroner has concluded that Montrose took his own life last month at his home in Millbrae, Calif. His widow, Leighsa Montrose, tells the newspaper that her 64-year-old husband was tormented by clinical depression for much of his life.

OCEANSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Junior Seau, a homegrown superstar who was the fist-pumping, emotional leader of the San Diego Chargers for 13 years, was found shot to death at his home Wednesday morning in what police said appeared to be a suicide. He was 43. Police Chief Frank McCoy said Seau's girlfriend reported finding him unconscious with a gunshot wound to the chest, and lifesaving efforts were unsuccessful. A gun was found near him, McCoy said. Police said no suicide note was found and they didn't immediately know who the gun was registered to. Seau's death in Oceanside, in...

Junior Seau, a homegrown superstar who was the fist-pumping, emotional leader of the San Diego Chargers for 13 years, was found shot to death at his home Wednesday morning in what police said appeared to be a suicide. He was 43. Police Chief Frank McCoy said Seau's girlfriend reported finding him unconscious with a gunshot wound to the chest and lifesaving efforts were unsuccessful. A gun was found near him, McCoy said. Police said no suicide note was found and they didn't immediately know who the gun was registered to. Seau's death in...

Former Libyan oil minister Shukri Ghanem, whose body was found floating Sunday in the Danube river, died from drowning, Austrian police said. Autopsy results on Ghanem's corpse showed no signs of violence, police spokesman Roman Hahslinger said Monday. The body was found in a section of the Danube that runs through Vienna close to where he had a residence. Ghanem last year announced he was abandoning Gadhafi's regime to support the rebels who ultimately toppled the dictator.

Brittany Killgore was hoping to unwind for three days after filing for divorce from her Marine husband serving in Afghanistan. Prosecutors believe things quickly went wrong when she met another Marine for a night out. "She sent a text saying, 'Help,"' Patrick Espinoza, a deputy district attorney in San Diego County, said Thursday. "She was missing from that point on. " Authorities said Killgore's body was found in brush near Lake Skinner on April 17, hours after paramedics were called to a San Diego motel and found another woman with self-inflicted cuts and a...

The death of rock guitarist Ronnie Montrose, who formed an eponymous band in the 1970s and played with heavy hitters such as Van Morrison and Herbie Hancock, has been ruled a suicide. The San Francisco Chronicle reports ( http://bit.ly/Hqcl67) the San Mateo County coroner has concluded that Montrose took his own life last month at his home in Millbrae, Calif. His widow, Leighsa Montrose, tells the newspaper that her 64-year-old husband was tormented by clinical depression for much of his life.

ATHENS - A Greek retiree shot himself dead Wednesday in the busiest public square in Athens during morning rush hour, leaving a note police said linked his suicide with the country's acute financial woes. Hours later, more than 1,500 antiausterity protesters gathered in the square, responding to social media calls for peaceful demonstrations accusing Greek politicians of driving people to despair with harsh cutbacks implemented to secure vital international bailouts. Limited scuffles broke out between the protesters and riot police, who used a small amount of pepper spray to...

Police say four South Koreans have been found dead in an apparent group suicide. Police say the bodies of two men and two women in their 20s were found Thursday in a parked van in Seongju, about 190 miles (300 kilometers) southeast of Seoul. Police believe the four killed themselves by burning coal briquettes and inhaling fumes because burned briquettes were found in the car and the windows were sealed with tape. Police say a suicide note was found. South Korea has one of the world’s highest suicide rates and the highest in the developed world.

Uruguayan investigators are examinining the cell phones and computer of a high-ranking Argentine government economist, seeking a motive for his apparent suicide during an international summit. A hotel maid found Ivan Heyn's body during the Mercosur summit on Tuesday. Police say he had apparently just taken a shower and that his belt had choked off his air supply, but there were no signs of violence and no suicide note was found. President Cristina Fernandez said Wednesday that the 34-year-old deputy foreign commerce secretary was like a son, and that word of...

Rachel Weisz has become an exquisite camera artist. In a single shot, she can open up a whole movie. "The Deep Blue Sea" has a scene like that. Weisz sits at a table in a London restaurant whose patrons are all singing Jo Stafford's "You Belong to Me. " Some of these people are seated at her table, including Freddie Page (Tom Hiddleston), the RAF pilot she loves, and they know the song and sing it with real fervor. It means something to them. It's uniting them, soothing them, seducing them.

BEVERLY - In a phone conversation on the afternoon of Feb. 24, Beverly police Officer Jason Lantych offered to meet Hamilton police Sergeant Kenneth Nagy. Lantych said he would discuss the relationship he had with Nagy's wife - but only "in a public place so he wouldn't get shot. " "Nagy just laughed it off," according to a State Police report. Details of the violent confrontation that followed between the two men and Katherine Nagy's relationship with Lantych are contained in investigative reports released Thursday by Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett and the Beverly...