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ST. LOUIS — Shooting suspect kills self during standoff: A shooting suspect died Tuesday after barricading in a home to hide from police in the city's Dutchtown neighborhood.

Officers were called to South Grand Boulevard and Meramec Street just before 4 p.m. on several reports of a shooting, police said.

The found a 43-year-old man in the alley of the 4200 block of South Grand Boulevard who had been shot and was taken to the hospital, according to a report.

Officers learned the 19-year-old man suspected of shooting the man ran into a nearby home, police said.

Negotiators and SWAT responded to the house, police said, but were unable to make contact with the teenager.

Police obtained a search warrant and entered the home, where they found the 19-year-old in a bedroom. He had shot and killed himself, police said.

ST. LOUIS — Police ID man killed after breaking into vacant property: Police on Wednesday identified the man who they say was shot and killed Tuesday by a property manager in the city's Carondelet neighborhood.

Terrell Cunningham, 36, died just after 3 a.m. in the 5700 block of South Broadway, police said. He lived in the 10000 block of Coburg Lands Drive in Bellefontaine Neighbors.

Police arrested Shane C. Richmond, 48, after the shooting. The property manager was charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action and is in custody without bond.

Richmond told police he was investigating a noise when he saw Cunningham in an apartment building, court documents said. Richmond said he shot the man when Cunningham started to move toward him while making aggressive comments.

But a witness who was also present contradicted Richmond’s account. She said he immediately opened fire after walking into the building and that Cunningham never had the chance to stand up.

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