Man kills wife and son at baseball game

A man gunned down his estranged wife and 10-year-old son just after the boy’s baseball game as players and parents fled for cover. The man later killed himself, police said.

The 31-year-old woman was watching the game from her car at the park in north St Louis, Missouri, yesterday, when she spotted her husband. She yelled for her son, but the gunman began shooting before they could escape, police said.

The man killed his wife as she sat in the car, then turned the gun on his son, St Louis Police Chief Joe Mokwa said. No one else was injured.

"He grabbed his son, took his son several feet away from the automobile ... and shot his son," Mokwa said.

The 34-year-old suspect fled from the park. Police later found his car with the man inside, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, police said. No names were immediately released.

"You work hard and give so much of your time to these kids," said Warren Scott, the boy’s Little League coach. "Then to have something like this happen .... It’s just so hard to swallow".