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Man Shoots Wife, Son During Ballgame in U.S.
A man opened fire just after his son's baseball game Monday night, killing his estranged wife and the 10-year-old boy as players and parents fled for cover. The man later killed himself, authorities said.
The woman, 31, was watching the game from her car at the park in north St. Louis, U.S. when she spotted her husband. She yelled for her son, but the gunman began shooting before they could escape, police said.
The man killed his wife as she sat in the car, then turned the gun on his son, St. Louis Police Chief Joe Mokwa said. No one else was injured.
"He grabbed his son, took his son several feet away from the automobile ... and shot his son," Mokwa said.
The suspect, 34, fled from the park. Police later found his car pulled over on Interstate 55. The man was inside, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, police said. No names were immediately released.
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