Saturday, March 19, 2011

Robertsville, MO: One dead, one wounded in Franklin County shootings

BY JAKE WAGMAN • jwagman@post-dispatch.com > 314-340-8268 | Posted: Saturday, March 19, 2011 4:30 pm

ROBERTSVILLE • A woman is dead and her husband in the hospital after what Franklin County authorities are investigating as a murder and failed suicide.
Police responding to a call for a gunshot found Randy O. Price, 39, shot in the head with a 9 MM handgun at his home on Highway N in Robertsville. While there, police later discovered the body of his wife in an RV on the property.
Tiffany Price, 36, had also been shot.
Franklin County Sheriff Gary F. Toelke said there were seven children at the residence when they arrived -- four children of the Prices, and three friends of the children.
According to police, Tiffany Price had not been seen by her children since Thursday.
Randy Price, police said, told their children that she had left to be "gone for a few days." Price's 14-year-old daughter sent text messages to her mother's phone, and received replies; however, phone calls were left unreturned.
Sheriff's deputies searching the home on Saturday found Tiffany Price's cell phone inside the residence.
Toelke said his department is investigating the incident as a murder-suicide gone awry. Randy Price was taken to St. John's Hospital in Creve Coeur. His condition is unknown, though Toelke said brain damage is a possibility.
Police contacted the state family services division and surviving relatives to take care of the Prices' children.

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