Josh Marks, a former basketball player turned cook and eventual finalist in the cooking competition "Masterchef" was found dead in a Chicago alleyway with a gunshot wound on the head.

The initial report from the Chicago Tribune:  "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. Fire department personnel were already there."

The initial findings, also from the Chicago Tribune: "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, police said. The victim, of the South Side, was pronounced dead at 6:37 p.m. on the scene, according to a spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner's office."

The death was ruled as a suicide as the gunshot was believed to be self-inflicted.

This is not the first time that Marks had been violent and mentally unstable. He was arrested last July for assaulting a police officer in the University of Chicago. Further details on the report also from Chicago Tribune:
"At the time of Marks' arrest in July, police say he claimed to have been possessed by "MasterChef" judge Gordon Ramsay who turned him into God. During the scuffle, officials say it took multiple officers to capture Marks, after he lunged at one and attempted to take his gun.

In that July 29th incident, university police responded to an to an emergency phone activation in the 5400 block of South Kimbark Avenue at 3:55 a.m. and found Marks with injuries to his face, according to police. When an officer asked Marks what the emergency was, Marks attacked the officer and took him to the ground, police said.

Marks, who is 7-foot-2, struck the officer in the face several times and tried to remove the officer's weapon from its holster. An assisting officer got there and used a baton and pepper spray and told him to stop fighting, but he refused, police said."

It's a sad turn of events, as he was already successful in his career after basketball.