News Stories related to Workplace Shootings Feb. 8, 2008- 6 Dead in Kirkwood, MO City Hall Shooting A gunman killed two police officers and three city officials this afternoon (Australian time) when he stormed into a city council meeting in a suburb of St Louis in the US, police say. The gunman, who was later shot dead by police, killed one police officer in the parking lot outside City Hall in Kirkwood and killed another inside the building. He rushed into the council meeting and began shooting people, including council officials and Mayor Mike Swoboda, who suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was in critical condition, police said. "He shot three other people who were attending the council meeting. They also are deceased," the St Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper quoted Officer Tracy Panus as saying. According to eyewitnesses the gunman entered Council chamber and began firing as he yelled "shoot the Mayor". Local television station KMOV-TV interviewed the brother of the suspected gunman, who was identified as 52-year-old Charles Thornton. "My brother went to war tonight with the people and government that were putting torment and strife into his life and he ended it," Gerald Thornton said. "I'm OK with it." Two of the dead were council members and the other was an engineer, police said. Witnesses said Thornton was a middle-aged local contractor who had feuded with the city council in the past. A city attorney fended off the gunman by throwing chairs at him, according to witnesses at the meeting. Thornton was convicted in 2006 of disorderly conduct after twice disrupting city council meetings. He had complained that his contracting business was being harassed by city officials and at one meeting he repeatedly called Mayor Swoboda a "jackass" before being hauled away. Mr Swoboda, the mayor since 2000 and a council member dating to 1976, was due to leave office within months.