Update: Wednesday Dec. 1st at 9:20 a.m.
BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) -- Authorities believe a young woman found dead in eastern Missouri is another victim of a gunman who killed three other people at a duplex apartment before turning the gun on himself.
The apartment shootings happened Tuesday in Bonne Terre. But St. Francois County Coroner Jim Coplin said Wednesday that the death of a young woman in nearby Washington County is also believed to be tied to the same shooter.
Coplin says the woman's body was found off Highway U near Bismarck. He says she knew the shooter and at least one of the victims found at the apartment complex. Details about how she was killed have not been released.
Names and a possible motive have not yet been released.
Two young children found at the apartment complex were unharmed.
Original Story:
BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) -- Four people are dead after a shooting at an apartment complex in the eastern Missouri town of Bonne Terre.
The shooting happened Tuesday morning at Boulder Creek Apartments in Bonne Terre, about 45 miles southwest of St. Louis. St. Francois County Coroner Jim Coplin says a man shot the other three people, then himself.
Coplin says domestic violence is suspected because authorities had been called to the apartment in the last week or two. All four victims were adults.
Names and ages of the victims were not released. The relationship between the gunman and the victims was not immediately known.
The shooting happened near North County High School, which was on lockdown until authorities determined there was no threat to students.
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