ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Illinois — A gunman who killed himself after fatally shooting a co-worker and critically injuring a police officer in Dupo on Sunday was also convicted of killing a customer outside a strip club in 2009.
Reginald O. Allen, 40, was armed with an AR-15 rifle Sunday afternoon during a crime spree that included multiple shootings, a getaway Bobcat and the theft of a police patrol car, authorities said.
Allen on Sunday shot and killed Darryl T. Mantz, 46, of Belleville, in a yard three blocks from Allen's home, police said. Allen and Mantz worked together rehabbing homes.