ILLINOIS
Chicago Tribune
By Jonathan BullingtonTribune reporter
2:49 p.m. CDT, April 17, 2013
The Notre Dame College Prep faculty member who was found dead on the Niles campus this week of an apparent suicide was the subject of a police investigation in whether he had engaged in “inappropriate communications” with “current or former Notre Dame students,” Niles police said today.
Police would not elaborate on the investigation of Richard Balentine, 38, the high school’s director of campus ministry, other than to say it was in the “preliminary stages prior to his death.” Balentine was found dead by staff members in his on-campus residence near the Catholic school’s sanctuary at about 9 a.m. Tuesday, officials said.
“It had not yet been determined if these communications were criminal in nature or a violation of school policy,” Niles police said in a release.
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