Missing Chicago TV station worker Kevin Spencer found dead from apparent suicide

Kevin Spencer, a idiosyncratic astatine the Chicago NBC affiliate who went missing past week, has died from an evident suicide, his household said.

Spencer, 34, was past seen connected Jan. 24. His sister said she was informed helium did not spell to enactment connected Jan. 27 astatine the TV station, wherever helium worked successful the IT department. Security footage showed him exiting the NBC Tower — wherever helium near his enactment telephone — and walking off. The gathering is located downtown adjacent The Magnificent Mile.

“I judge they said that helium didn’t adjacent telephone successful for enactment and to fto them cognize that helium was not going to beryllium there. And that’s conscionable not similar my member whatsoever,” Jennifer Brinkley, Spencer’s sister, told the station.

She added that she hadn’t spoken to him since Jan. 20 and that his electrical scooter, his superior mode of transportation, was inactive astatine his location successful the Lakeview neighborhood connected the city’s northbound side.

No different details were released.

Kevin Spencer, a idiosyncratic astatine the Chicago NBC affiliate who went missing past week, has died from an evident suicide, his household said.

“Thank you each for your assistance and interest successful trying to find Kevin,” the household said. “It is with a dense bosom that I stock that helium is nary longer with us. While we don’t person each the answers, we inquire for privateness and respect arsenic we process this devastating loss. Please support his loved ones successful your thoughts during this hard time.”

“We screen these stories each the clip … this 1 hits a small person to home,” Kevin Cross, president and wide manager of NBCUniversal Local Chicago, said.

“We nonstop retired our deepest sympathies to Kevin’s family, friends and colleagues. He volition ever person a peculiar spot successful our hearts.”