Subscribe
Hellobeautiful Featured Video
CLOSE

“MasterChef” finalist Josh Marks was found fatally shot in a Chicago alleyway Friday evening. According to the Chicago Medical Examiner’s office, he suffered from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

“Police responded to a call of a body found at 6:45 p.m. Friday in the 9700 block of South Peoria Avenue in the city’s Longwood Manor neighborhood and found Marks lying face up on the ground, unresponsive and bleeding from the head,” the Chicago Tribune reports. “Police said an acquaintance and two relatives of the victim were on the scene and one of the relatives told police that the victim suffered from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and he was distraught about something.”

MUST READ: SHE LIKES IT: Feel Like A World Star Chef In Your Own Kitchen Blue Apron!

MUST READ: Rapper Turned Chef! 2 Chainz Releases ‘#Mealtime’ Cookbook With New Album

In July, the-26-year-old celebrity chef was arrested for assaulting a University of Chicago police officer and trying to grab his gun. He was charged with attempting to disarm a police officer and two counts of aggravated battery to a peace officer.

Marks was best known as the runner-up on the third season of FOX’s reality series “MasterChef.”

RELATED STORIES

Chef Roble Begs Women To Stop Posting Their #StrugglePlates On Instagram [EXCLUSIVE]

Maybe You Need This: Chef Roblé’s New Fashion Line, ‘Food Porn’

LIKE HelloBeautiful On Facebook!

Check Out This Gallery

Celebs Who Died Of Drug Overdoses [PHOTOS]
0 photos

For 2024’s iteration of MadameNoire and HelloBeautiful’s annual series Women to Know, we knew we wanted to celebrate the people who help make the joys of film and television possible. To create art is to create magic. This year, we spotlight Hollywood Executive’s changing the face of cinema.