Police: Missouri auditor spokesman dead in apparent suicide
By DAVID A. LIEB, Associated Press
Mar 30, 2015 11:19 AM CDT
FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2002 photo is Robert "Spence" Jackson in Jefferson City, Mo. Jefferson City police said Monday, March 30, 2015 that Jackson, a spokesman for Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich, has died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, a month after the state auditor also killed himself....   (Associated Press)

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police say the Missouri auditor's spokesman has died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, just a month after the state auditor also killed himself.

Jefferson City police said Monday that Robert "Spence" Jackson was found dead Sunday evening at his home in the capital city. A police statement says Jackson's death is being investigated as a suicide.

Jackson had been the spokesman for Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich (shwyk), who fatally shot himself on Feb. 26 at his home in the St. Louis suburb of Clayton. Jackson had remained as the office spokesman after Schweich's death.

Jackson also had previously served as the spokesman for former Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt.