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Mo. Gunman Kills 5 at City Hall

Posted Feb 7, 08 9:23 PM CST in Crime & Courts,  US 

(Newser) – A gunman opened fire tonight at a city council meeting in suburban St. Louis, killing five people before being shot to death by police, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Two others were wounded, one of them critically. Police said the man killed an officer outside City Hall, then entered the building and council chambers, where he shot the others. 

"He came from the back of the room," said a witness. "He kept yelling ‘shoot the mayor’ and he just walked around shooting anybody he could." The mayor was one of the two people wounded. No motive was known, but the gunman had a long history of angry exchanges at council meetings, the Post-Dispatch notes.

Source St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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A man is helped to a waiting ambulance outside city hall Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008, in Kirkwood, Mo. (AP Photo/Tom Gannam)   (Associated Press)
Police walk outside City Hall Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008, in Kirkwood, Mo. A gunman opened fire at a city meeting tonight. (AP Photo/Tom Gannam)   (Associated Press)
A shaken man sits in the back of an ambulance outside city hall Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008, in Kirkwood, Mo. (AP Photo/Tom Gannam)   (Associated Press)
Law enforcement officers stand outside the Kirkwood police department next door to city hall where a gunman opened fire at a meeting of the Kirkwood City Council Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008, in Kirkwood, Mo....   (Associated Press)
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