Campus Safety is warning the NCC community to be on the lookout for an individual seen recently near campus. In an email sent to the NCC community at 5:42 p.m. Wednesday, Campus Safety says the “person of concern” is Kurt Johnson, a white 50+-year-old male who is said to drive a black Jeep Wrangler with two license plates (Illinois license plate Y844378 or Indiana license plate 925G69). According to the email, Johnson has been recently seen on sidewalks near campus.
Attached to the email are photographs of Johnson. The same photographs can be found in a 2015 article from the Chicago Tribune detailing the arrest of convicted murderer Kurt Johnson.
The email did not specify why the community should be on alert, but a cursory review of Johnson’s apparent social media shows a recent history of photography of NCC’s campus and Campus Safety officers. Johnson also outlines a conflict he has with the school about his participation in the Master of Leadership Studies program.
Additionally, at least one student has reported being handed a flyer with a screenshot of a social media post from the Twitter handle of Kurt Johnson Savage. The social media post screenshot displayed on the flyer discusses an application to the “Master’s of Leadership program at North Central College.”
Photo via @SavageCodeTruth on Twitter, posted on September 15, 2018.
The Chronicle has reached out to Campus Safety, Student Affairs and the Office of Marketing and Communication to ask for additional information regarding the situation. No one was available to speak as of 8 p.m.
According to the 2015 article from the Tribune, “Johnson spent almost two decades behind bars for the 1993 murder of Michael Beshoar. Johnson shot Beshoar to death after Beshoar, who was dating Johnson’s former girlfriend, confronted Johnson for stalking the woman. Johnson claimed he killed Beshoar in self-defense, but a Will County jury convicted him of first-degree murder.”
Johnson, who lived in Naperville in 1993, was 31 years old when he was accused of murdering Beshoar, who was shot multiple times.
The Chronicle will update this story as more information becomes available.
