By Associated Press - Monday, February 10, 2020

BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) - Authorities in rural eastern Missouri are investigating the shooting deaths of a 24-year-old man and his grandfather as a murder-suicide.

The shooting happened Monday morning near Lake Primrose in St. Francois County, about 60 miles southwest of St. Louis.

Coroner James Coplin told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that investigates believe that Nicholas David Brown fatally shot his grandfather, 66-year-old James Lange, before turning the gun on himself.



The men shared the home where the bodies were found.

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