February 7, 2008 (2008-02-07) c. 7:00 P.M. CST[1] (UTC-6)
Target
Kirkwood City Council
Attack type
Assassination, mass shooting, mass murder
Weapons
Smith & Wesson Model 29 .44 Magnum revolver; Smith & Wesson .40 caliber handgun[1]
Deaths
7 (including the perpetrator)[1][2]
Injured
1 (Todd Smith)[1]
Perpetrator
Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton[1]
Motive
Not receiving construction contracts
On February 7, 2008, a gunman went on a shooting rampage at a public meeting in the city hall, leaving six people dead[n 1] and a seventh injured in Kirkwood, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton, aged 52, shot one police officer with a revolver across the side street from city hall and took the officer's handgun before entering city hall. Thornton reached council chambers with these two pistols shortly after the meeting began. There, he shot a police officer, the public works director, two council members, the mayor, and a reporter. The shooter died from two gunshot wounds in a shootout with police.[1][3][4]
^ abcdef"6 dead in shooting rampage at Kirkwood City Council". St. Louis Post Dispatch. February 7, 2008. Archived from the original on February 8, 2008. Retrieved February 7, 2008.
^ ab"Former Kirkwood Mayor Mike Swoboda dies". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. September 6, 2008. Archived from the original on September 8, 2008. Retrieved September 6, 2008.
^Nizza, Mike; Baranauckas, Carla (February 8, 2008). "Missouri Shooter's Motives Emerge". The New York Times. Retrieved February 8, 2008.
^"Man opens fire at Mo. council meeting". United Press International. February 7, 2008. Archived from the original on February 12, 2008. Retrieved February 7, 2008.
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