The Kendall County Sheriff's Office identified the man who publicly committed suicide at the Kendall County Courthouse last week as 52-year-old John Marcus Lundberg of Yorkville.
A motive for the public display though has yet to be determined, said Deputy Craig French, spokesman for the Sheriff's office.
"That's something that we're still looking into," he said Monday afternoon.
Video surveillance from the Kendall County Courthouse showed Lundberg putting a shotgun to his head and firing a single shot Friday afternoon at approximately 1:46 p.m.
Lundberg, who was by himself at the time, parked his car on the far west side of the parking lot, according to police.
"At this point, we do not have any record that he had any criminal or civil court dates today at the courthouse,” French said Friday. “He never went into the courthouse."
Here is an example of what I mean you buy a home 10 years ago for $250K your mortgage payment is $1500.00 a month plus your taxes are $7K a year which breaks down to another $583.00 a month, and "don't forget insurance" and all your other bills e.g.; Lights, gas the high water bill in Kendall etc. Now that means you are forking over $2k a month, and that's fine! Because you have a good job. But fast forward to the here and now to whereas because the banks over Leveraged and "spent money they didn't have" they put the economy in a tail spin. Your $250K home is only worth $125K but they still want you to make payments based off the $250K price tag. And guess what else you get laid off because the economy is bad, and guess what? Unemployment is only $1K a month and you can't keep up with the payments. So the bank now foreclose on you, in some cases the same bank that caused all this mess and got bailed out/ helped out by you the "taxpayer" is now taking your home. IT IS NOT RIGHT! & VERY SAD. Thanks for listening
I have to agree with your theory. Too many people have lost everything. Have friends still fighting and even thou Pres. Obama has set housing programs to help those in need, the banks do not want to cooperate and make things even more difficult! And Congress is just loving all this tragedy! We the taxpayers bailed them out, but they are not satisfied, they want more blood!
Its not obvious why he did it and yes we may never know. You could get the impression that nobody gives a hoot a man committed suicide in public. Instead of talking about the tragic incident in the above article we get a lesson on how much it costs to live in Kendall County and how the government screws us. So many people on this site seem to know so much, be so smart and have the answer to everything, your all a bunch of armchair quarterbacks.
Also Brian you said you paid $420K for your home in 05 Right? Let me inform you on a little something in 2005 (this is when the banks new things were going south e.g. Going Bad) So in 2005 homes where selling for $245k - $330 in our area here in Kendall, you said you paid $420000K that means your mortgage is like what? $3,200-$3,500 before taxes? So that means the same bank you are defending over charged you by $90K- $175K and then to top it off your house is worth 30%- 60% less then what it was worth in 05 bases of where you at. But the beloved bank still wants you to pay the note based off the $420K. Sounds Crazy right? And you are 100% right Brian the bank did not force you to do this, instead they used tricky to do this with a little thing they call "Debt to income ratio"! At least if they had forced you, you would have known it was happening. Instead they used the deadliest weapon of all the “PEN” and instead of the phrase “Stick em up” They said “Sign here please” with a smile. You trust that the bank was there and would not dare let you over pay for something Right? Well the bank has to been accountability also. Not just keep getting bailed out. Thank you for listening.