Charles Lee Thorton killed in Kirkwood

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• Date: Feb 8,2008

Charles Lee “Cookie” Thorton (graduate of Kirdwood High 1974) - died from police gunshots after he killed two police officers! Thorton first fired at Tom Ballman, a police officer at the meeting. Thornton then targeted Public Works Director Kenneth Yost, who was sitting in front of McNichols. He was also hit in the head.

It apprears that Charles Throton walked into a Kirkwood city council meeting Thursday night and shot 7 several people, including the city’s mayor and several council members.

“He came from the back of the room,” said Janet McNichols, the correspondent from stltoday.com. “He kept yelling ‘shoot the mayor’ and he just walked around shooting anybody he could.”