Police: Man killed in shooting outside Creve Coeur theater

CREVE COEUR, Mo. -- The police chief of a St. Louis suburb where a 28-year-old man was killed Sunday night while leaving a movie theater says the victim was targeted and the shooting wasn't a random act.

Creve Coeur police chief Glenn Eidman told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch the shooting, which happened shortly before midnight at the AMC Creve Coeur 12, was the result of a "one-on-one incident [and had] nothing to do with the movie theater."

Police identified the victim Monday as Ned R. Booker of University City, Missouri. The shots were fired from inside a car.

Bullet holes pierced the theater's door frames and shattered glass at its front entrance and in its atrium. Police kept patrons inside the theater for about 40 minutes as a precaution.

Information from: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, http://www.stltoday.com