Authorities look for motive in monastery shootings

Tuesday, June 11, 2002

CONCEPTION, Mo. -- A 71-year-old man opened fire at a Roman Catholic abbey in rural Northwest Missouri, killing two monks and seriously wounding two others before committing suicide in an abbey chapel, authorities said.

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