Dead Celebrity Alert

Seven months after surviving two gunshot wounds to his head, former Kirkwood Mayor Mike Swoboda died this morning after a brief stay in a hospice. …

Mr. Swoboda would have turned 70 later this month.

Mr. Swoboda was shot during the shooting rampage Feb. 7 at Kirkwood City Hall in which five of the city’s public servants and the gunman were killed. His survival seemed unlikely, but three weeks after the shootings, he was released to a rehabilitation hospital, and a month after that he went home. … Read full obituary

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