UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo. — The shooting that left two men dead in University City on Christmas Eve was a murder-suicide, police said Saturday.
The initial call came out at around 3:30 Thursday afternoon for an apparent shooting in the 6500 block of Crest Avenue. When officers arrived, they found two men dead from gunshot wounds in two adjacent backyards. Police said the men were neighbors.
On Saturday, police identified the men as 65-year old Dorsey Brown and 63-year-old Ronald Ergene. Police said the evidence showed Ergene shot Brown then shot and killed himself.
A woman on the scene of the incident told 5 On Your Side's Robert Townsend that her father-in-law was one of the men who was shot. The woman said, “he had just returned home after delivering Christmas presents to his grandchildren.”
On Thursday, police said they were not looking for any suspects.
Police said the investigation is ongoing and is being examined by the St. Louis County Medical Examiner's Office.
Police cars from the University City and Washington University police departments were on the scene. The scene is about two miles north of Washington University's campus.