Police: Man killed woman, self in Missouri mall

FLORISSANT, Mo.---- A man recently divorced from his wife of more than 20 years shot and killed her inside a suburban St. Louis mall on Wednesday before committing suicide, police said. No one else was injured but the Jamestown Mall in Florissant was evacuated. The shooter was 49 and his ex-wife was 47, but their names had not been released, St. Louis County police spokeswoman Tracy Panus said. Panus said they both lived in the nearby suburb of Hazelwood and had been married more than 20 years with grown children before recently divorcing. The motive for the shooting just outside the Sears store had not been determined, Panus said. Marcus Gwynn said he heard four shots as he was walking into the mall to begin his shift at a Radio Shack store. ''I seen a lady on the ground face down, then he sits on the ground and shot himself... [read full story]