ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — A 17-year-old girl is dead after police said a man shot the mother of his children and the woman's 17-year-old daughter Sunday morning.
Gino Branch, 41, was charged with second-degree murder, domestic assault and multiple other crimes in connection with the Sunday morning shootings.
The incident happened inside an apartment in the 10200 block of Valley Drive in north St. Louis County. According to police, officers arrived around 8:30 a.m. and found a woman and her 17-year-old daughter suffering from gunshot wounds.
Police said Branch shot the woman and her daughter. After the shootings, he picked up the shell casings and threw them in the trash.
Police said he then told two 6-year-old children who were in the home at the time of the shooting to put on their coats and get in his car. Police said drove to Valley Park to toss the gun in a dumpster then drove to a Troy, Illinois, convenience store. While at the store, he told someone he had just killed two people in north St. Louis County.
Branch was charged with second-degree murder, armed criminal action, first-degree domestic assault, two counts of endangering the welfare of a child and one count of tampering with physical evidence. His bond was set at $1 million.
Anyone with information is asked to call the St. Louis County Police Department at 636-529-8210 or CrimeStoppers at 1-866-371-8477.
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