Kirkwood City Council shooting

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On February 7, 2008, a mass shooting during a public meeting in Kirkwood City Hall left six people dead and another injured in Kirkwood, Missouri, United States, a suburb of St. Louis. Among the victims was the city's mayor, Mike Swoboda, who died from his injuries seven months later. 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.