Aaron C. Hemingway

Suicide

Aaron C. Hemingway reportedly shot himself in the head with a 12-gauge shotgun as police closed in. Hemingway had allegedly shot and injured two Ameren linemen repaired a substation and fled the scene in an S-10 truck. Officer Larry Miller spotted Hemingway and turned his squad car around to get behind the truck, which stopped in the middle of the road. Sgt. James Barker and Captain Robert Hull were in a squad car about 100 feet in front of Hemingway's truck. Miller said Hemingway was leaned over in his seat. Miller said he pulled his pistol and pointed it at Hemingway as he approached, then saw Hemingway with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his right temple. Hull and Barker also said they saw Hemingway slumped in his seat with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. According to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Hemingway's mother, crime scene photographs showed the shotgun lying across Hemingway's lap with the action open, which was "a task impossible for Aaron Hemingway to perform subsequent to receiving the mortal gunshot wound to his right temple region."