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Philly: Inspector said collapse 'wasn't my fault'

Philly aide: Inspector said on tape before apparent suicide building collapse wasn't his fault
Maryclaire Dale, The Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA - A building inspector who had visited a demolition site before a brick wall collapsed onto an adjacent thrift store, killing six people, left a cellphone video message before his apparent suicide this week saying the collapse "wasn't my fault," the mayor's spokesman said.

However, inspector Ronald Wagenhoffer also said he wished he'd been more diligent, spokesman Mark McDonald told The Associated Press on Friday.

Police say 4 dead in St. Louis murder-suicide

Police say 4 dead in murder-suicide south of downtown St. Louis, shooter among victims
Jim Salter, The Associated Press

ST. LOUIS - St. Louis police say four people are confirmed dead in a murder-suicide shooting south of downtown.

On its Twitter account, police confirmed that two men and two women were dead in the shooting at a business about five minutes south of downtown. Police said the dead included the shooter and three victims.

Additional details were not immediately available. Police did not return multiple calls seeking comment.

Inspector in Philadelphia collapse commits suicide

Official: Inspector who reviewed Philly building before collapse that killed 6 commits suicide
Patrick Walters, The Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia officials have identified an inspector who fatally shot himself a week after a building collapse that killed six people as a dedicated 16-year veteran of the Department of Licenses and Inspections.

Deputy Mayor Everett Gillison says 52-year-old inspector Ronald Wagenhoffer was found dead in his truck Wednesday night with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Terminally ill woman witnesses Ohio murder-suicide

Family friction over care for Ohio cancer patient culminates in murder-suicide, leaves 4 dead
Kantele Franko, The Associated Press

LOGAN, Ohio - A man repeatedly shot his adult son and two sisters-in-law in his living room, killing them in front of his terminally ill wife, then fatally shot himself on the front porch as family tension about the cancer-stricken woman's care apparently boiled over, authorities said.

An earlier dispute about whether the woman should have been fed tea and toast or the orange her husband had peeled for her apparently set off the shooter Monday, 63-year-old Paul Gilkey.

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