Ex-Husband Chased Down His Mother and Shot Her; a Pipe bomb then detonated during West Bend murder-suicide

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Published Oct. 15, 2009 at 8:35 a.m.

A man in West Bend tried to help his mother early Thursday as his mother's ex-husband chased her down his mother and shot her. The ex-husband then shot himself in the head, police said.A Milwaukee police bomb squad team and federal agents helped West Bend police investigate the chaotic scene Thursday morning in the 1200 block of N. 12 St. where the victim, Alice Gill, 52, and the shooter, Jeffrey Gill, 50, died.A news release from the West Bend Police Department says investigators later learned that a pipe bomb had been detonated in Alice Gill's vehicle during the shooting, which occurred just after midnight.

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