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PERRYVILLE, Mo. (AP) - A man shot and killed two people before killing himself Sunday morning in a domestic dispute.
Jerry Moore, 68, shot and killed his wife, Diane Moore, 55, when she and three friends arrived at the couple's house to remove her belongings, the Perry County Sheriff's Department said.
Jerry Moore also shot two of the men who escorted his wife, killing 54-year-old Dennis Stanfield and wounding 46-year-old Allen Kennon. Moore then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide.
“It's a terrible situation,” said Roger Prost, an alderman in Perryville. He said the last homicide in town occurred years ago, and he couldn't ever remember a violent crime occurring in the Moores' upscale neighborhood outside the city limits.
“Nothing like that has ever happened out there as far as I'm aware,” he said.
Diane Moore arrived at the home with her friends around 11 a.m., the Sheriff's Department said in a statement. When Jerry Moore saw the group approaching, he got a revolver and shot Stanfield and Kennon as they approached the back door of his home.
Moore also fired a shot at Dennis Stanfield's wife, 56-year-old Terry Stanfield, but the bullet just grazed her hooded sweat shirt and she was not wounded, according to the statement.
After shooting the two men, Jerry Moore shot his wife, who was outside the home, before killing himself.
The Moores live on a wooded property 10 miles outside of Perryville, a town of roughly 8,000 people about 80 miles southeast of St. Louis. The couple's home is inside a quiet gated community near Perry Lake, Prost said.
The killing comes less than two weeks after a man killed two of his children and shot himself in the nearby town of Jackson.
Mir Shahin Moshiri, 36, shot his wife, Katherine Moshiri, their two young children and his stepson on Dec. 3, then turned the gun on himself.
Mir Shahin and 4-year-old Madison Moshiri died that day. His stepson, 16-year-old Michael Jeffers, died Dec. 4. Katherine Moshiri was shot four times, but ran from the house to get help and survived. Their 2-year-old daughter, Meghan Moshiri, also survived.
Jerry Moore, 68, shot and killed his wife, Diane Moore, 55, when she and three friends arrived at the couple's house to remove her belongings, the Perry County Sheriff's Department said.
Jerry Moore also shot two of the men who escorted his wife, killing 54-year-old Dennis Stanfield and wounding 46-year-old Allen Kennon. Moore then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide.
“It's a terrible situation,” said Roger Prost, an alderman in Perryville. He said the last homicide in town occurred years ago, and he couldn't ever remember a violent crime occurring in the Moores' upscale neighborhood outside the city limits.
“Nothing like that has ever happened out there as far as I'm aware,” he said.
Diane Moore arrived at the home with her friends around 11 a.m., the Sheriff's Department said in a statement. When Jerry Moore saw the group approaching, he got a revolver and shot Stanfield and Kennon as they approached the back door of his home.
Moore also fired a shot at Dennis Stanfield's wife, 56-year-old Terry Stanfield, but the bullet just grazed her hooded sweat shirt and she was not wounded, according to the statement.
After shooting the two men, Jerry Moore shot his wife, who was outside the home, before killing himself.
The Moores live on a wooded property 10 miles outside of Perryville, a town of roughly 8,000 people about 80 miles southeast of St. Louis. The couple's home is inside a quiet gated community near Perry Lake, Prost said.
The killing comes less than two weeks after a man killed two of his children and shot himself in the nearby town of Jackson.
Mir Shahin Moshiri, 36, shot his wife, Katherine Moshiri, their two young children and his stepson on Dec. 3, then turned the gun on himself.
Mir Shahin and 4-year-old Madison Moshiri died that day. His stepson, 16-year-old Michael Jeffers, died Dec. 4. Katherine Moshiri was shot four times, but ran from the house to get help and survived. Their 2-year-old daughter, Meghan Moshiri, also survived.
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