Kelsi Anderson

Police believe the man shot a woman and then himself Thursday inside a south St. Louis County home. Their names have not been released.

Andrew J. Bengel, 56, of Waterford, Pennsylvania, died of blunt trauma after a crane hook snapped, causing him to be struck by a heavy chain.

Two firefighters suffered heat illness, and a third received a minor injury battling a St. Charles fire. They were expected to be released from the hospital soon.

Police said a man abandoned a baby in a car seat in the middle of Goodfellow Boulevard and told the mother he left the baby at a police station.

St. Louis police said the child was believed to be related to a parental kidnapping case.

A man in his 80s died from heat-related causes in west St. Louis County, officials confirmed.

The department identified the victim as 35-year-old Luke Sherman of O'Fallon, Missouri. Robert Farek, 48, was charged with second-degree murder.

Responding officers rushed the baby to the hospital, where the baby later died.

Officers responded at about 8 p.m. to a shooting call at the 8th and Pine Metrolink station.

A second person was charged in a deadly Steak ’n Shake shooting after a drive-thru dispute that killed employee Chauncia Meekins in April.