TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- A white ex-police detective in Kansas died Monday in an apparent suicide just before the start of his criminal trial over allegations that he sexually assaulted Black women and terrorized those who tried fight back. Local police found Roger Golubski dead of a gunshot wound on the back porch of his split-level home outside Kansas City, Kansas. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation said "there are no indications of foul play" in the 71-year-old's death, discovered Monday morning after a neighbor heard a gunshot.
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If he made it to 89 without a sexual harassment charge, good for him.