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Wilmette police on Friday said they were investigating an apparent suicide after finding the body of a 65-year-old man on the south end of Gillson Park beach shortly before 7 a.m.
Officers responded to a call of a person apparently down on the beach near Gillson’s Overlook Drive, and found the man with a single gunshot wound on his chest, according to the initial report from police.
A preliminary investigation indicated the wound was self-inflicted and the death was a suicide, the report stated.
Police Chief Brian King said the body was transported to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office for an autopsy. King said the name of the man was being withheld pending notification of kin.
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