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It was like a scene from a horror movie. A woman begs for her life as she is hunted down and killed on a busy highway.
According to the Associated Press, dozens of drivers stuck in Sunday traffic on a busy St. Louis-area highway watched in horror as a woman, bleeding from a gunshot wound, jumped from a moving car and crossed several lanes of traffic, banging on vehicle windows and begging for help before her boyfriend chased her down, shot her in the head and then killed himself, authorities said.
Tommie Hill, who lived in East St. Louis, Ill., killed Ashley Oliver, from nearby Cahokia, in front of his 7-year-old daughter, who was sitting about 50 feet away in the car.
According to witnesses, Oliver jumped out of the car and started running to other vehicles heading slowly north on the freeway. Her boyfriend pursued her with gun in hand. Oliver begged for help from people in passing cars, banging on their windows as Hill, also 25, closed in on her.
At least one driver began to roll down his window "until we saw that gun," Scott Cross, 38, of East St. Louis told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Hill pulled a semiautomatic handgun from his waistband and shot Oliver one last time, witnesses said. Then he put the gun to the right side of his own head and fired. He died at the scene.
Oliver was taken to a hospital in East St. Louis, where she died at 3:48 p.m. Sunday. "There was no time for anybody to intervene," Wasmuth said. The chase was brief, and the shooting happened quickly, too quickly to give anyone on the freeway a realistic chance to help.
Oliver was taken to a hospital in East St. Louis, where she died at 3:48 p.m. Sunday. "There was no time for anybody to intervene," Wasmuth said. The chase was brief, and the shooting happened quickly, too quickly to give anyone on the freeway a realistic chance to help.
Hill's body lay in the middle eastbound lane of the highway for a while as traffic crawled by in the passing lane. Police later shut down a section of the highway for about three hours.
St. Clair County Coroner, Rick Stone, reported that Oliver was shot three times, once in her right shoulder, once in the right side of the neck, and finally on the right side of her head. It wasn't clear just when the first two shots were fired.
The only witness to what happened in the car appears to be Hill's daughter, who wasn't hurt and is now with her mother.
Wasmuth said yesterday that he'd turned up no orders of protection or other signs the couple was headed toward the kind of tragedy that played out Sunday.
Hill had a long criminal record, including a conviction for cocaine possession and delivery in 2004 that led him to spend almost three years behind bars. He currently had pending charges of possession of marijuana and criminal trespass on state property. He was due in court next month.
"I don't know what started this," Sgt. Dave Wasmuth said. "And we may never know."
The only witness to what happened in the car appears to be Hill's daughter, who wasn't hurt and is now with her mother.
Wasmuth said yesterday that he'd turned up no orders of protection or other signs the couple was headed toward the kind of tragedy that played out Sunday.
Hill had a long criminal record, including a conviction for cocaine possession and delivery in 2004 that led him to spend almost three years behind bars. He currently had pending charges of possession of marijuana and criminal trespass on state property. He was due in court next month.
"I don't know what started this," Sgt. Dave Wasmuth said. "And we may never know."
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By: Kalynn on 6/23/2010 8:33AM
Sad, but this was East St. Louis, IL people, not St. Louis. We have our own crazies. People we need to wake up! Far too much violence going on, especially amongst our young people. Black, white and all races. Wake up people, wake up!
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By: Gerald on 6/23/2010 9:23AM
You mean to tell me, that there was no one who could step gas peddle and run his ass over?
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By: los on 6/23/2010 11:30AM
somebody should have ran his ass over
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By: BG on 6/23/2010 4:01PM
Do that, a beautiful Mother will be alive today. A child will not be motherless. An insane moron would probably be dead. And you get locked up for years.
That is as crazy and stupid as the American law and Judicial system is.
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By: You make me sick on 6/23/2010 7:29PM
Well said BG......well said. :)
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By: Jeannette on 6/23/2010 8:42PM
The IL. gun laws does not allow a IL. resident to have a concealed weapons permit. Only the criminals carry guns. I belive that MO. has a concealed weapons permit, because MO. allows for resiprosity of my state's concealed weapons permit. When traveling through IL., I have to unload my weapon and lock it up in the trunk somewhere.
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