KIRKWOOD — No one may ever know what drove Charles Lee “Cookie” Thornton to shoot and kill five people at a City Council meeting in this St. Louis suburb. Even those who knew him best were stunned.
Racial tensions might have sparked Kirkwood shooting
Monday, February 11, 2008 | 10:28 a.m. CST;
updated 3:11 a.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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