Police confirm Blagojevich aide committed suicide

Police in south suburban Country Club Hills say a former fundraiser for ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich committed suicide.

Police Chief Regina Evans says 51-year-old Christopher Kelly also tried to hurt himself last Tuesday night after pleading guilty to fraud charges involving O'Hare International Airport.

Evans say friends took him to the hospital that night but they did not go in after Kelly agreed to get help for his depression.

Three nights later he was found slumped over the steering wheel of his Cadillac Escalade in a lumberyard and was taken to a hospital. He died Saturday morning at a Chicago hospital less than a week before he was to report to prison.

Evans says Kelly left a note Tuesday but did not disclose what it said.