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02-08-2008, 08:53 PM
Shooter had long history with City Hall (AP) (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080209/ap_on_re_us/missouri_shooting)
http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080208/capt.5dc951e994014307bb67580ddd3ab8f2.missouri_sho oting_mojr105.jpg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=s4Rb7JzpoSCWbE_1i7jBMw-- (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080209/ap_on_re_us/missouri_shooting)AP - Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton always seemed to be fighting City Hall. Even before he shot and killed five people at a City Council meeting, thousands of dollars in parking tickets and citations piled up against the asphalt company owner. He raged at meetings over the years that he was being persecuted, mocking city officials as "jackasses" and accusing them of having a racist "plantation mentality."
http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080208/capt.5dc951e994014307bb67580ddd3ab8f2.missouri_sho oting_mojr105.jpg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=s4Rb7JzpoSCWbE_1i7jBMw-- (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080209/ap_on_re_us/missouri_shooting)AP - Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton always seemed to be fighting City Hall. Even before he shot and killed five people at a City Council meeting, thousands of dollars in parking tickets and citations piled up against the asphalt company owner. He raged at meetings over the years that he was being persecuted, mocking city officials as "jackasses" and accusing them of having a racist "plantation mentality."