Ellendale’s murder becomes a murder-suicide investigation

ST. LOUIS — Homicide detectives from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department are investigating an apparent homicide-suicide that took place early Saturday morning.

Officers were called just before 6:10 a.m. to investigate a shooting at the 7000 block of Piccadilly Avenue in the Ellendale neighborhood, according to a police spokesman.

Police found the victim, identified as Trina Gilmore, shot dead on the sidewalk. Gilmor was 44.

Shortly after 4:20 p.m., the St. Louis Police Department responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle parked in the alley behind the 6900 block of Sutherland Avenue in the Lindenwood Park neighborhood.

Police found the body of a man inside the vehicle. He had died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. A gun was found on the man’s lap.

Investigators claim the man in the vehicle is the person responsible for Gilmore’s death.

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