Springs man dead after shooting in Missouri

Posted: 07.14.2011 at 7:59 AM

DIXON, MO. (AP) -- Police say two men are dead after an apparent murder-suicide in the small south-central Missouri town of Dixon.

Police say 30-year-old Gary Ball of Dixon shot and killed 32-year-old Theron Parlin of Colorado Springs, Colo., Wednesday night before killing himself.

KSSZ reports that authorities say Ball and his wife were getting a divorce, and his wife was moving in with Parlin.

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