ST. LOUIS— St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) released more information about the fatal shooting in the Red Roof Inn on Wilson Avenue that occurred earlier this week.
SLMPD assisted US Marshals in a search for a homicide suspect who they now believe took his own life at the hotel.
On Wednesday, SLMPD made requests for occupants of a hotel room at the Red Roof Inn to exit and used non-lethal pepper balls and OC gas when the requests were ignored. One man exited with a “grazed” wound to his head. Officers found a 46-year-old man inside the room dead. Detectives determined he died by a self-inflicted gunshot and believe him to be the homicide suspect they were searching for. Positive identification is pending…