...Officer kills himself in front of witnesses....

By Heather Ratcliffe
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 08/25/2006
Moments after a federal police officer crashed his car on Interstate 55 in St. Louis, he shot himself to death in front of the witnesses trying to aid him, police said. The man, 26, was driving south on the interstate near Loughborough Avenue when his car sideswiped at least one other vehicle and then crashed.
He got out of the car and spoke to the other driver and witnesses who had stopped to help.
Then he got back into the car, turned up the radio and shot himself in the head. The man worked as a federal police officer for the Department of Veteran Affairs in St. Louis.
He was recently discharged from the United States Marine Corps, authorities said.
St. Louis police recovered a .40 caliber pistol from his car.