Sunday night's victims were identified as Dwone Currey, 23, of the 2400 block of Center Avenue in Jennings, and Archie White, 22, of the 10000 block of Count Drive in North County.
No arrests have been made in the double murder, police said Monday.
A St. Louis police officer was at the supermarket, working security, when someone came into the store about 6:45 p.m. Sunday and reported the shooting. Currey had been shot in the head and arm. He was in the driver's seat. His passenger, White, was shot in the head. Both men were dead at the scene.
Witnesses saw the gunman leave Currey's car and flee in a burgundy Chevrolet Monte Carlo driven by another man. Police have released no detailed description of the gunman. Anyone with information is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 866-371-8477.
The grocery parking lot, in the 3400 block of Union Boulevard, is in the city's Wells-Goodfellow neighborhood. The lot was the scene of an unsolved homicide on Oct. 9.
In that murder, Bruce A. McCaleb, 44, of St. Louis, was shot while in a car in the parking lot. At the time, two people with McCaleb told police that a gunman had approached their car and announced a robbery. The gunman shot McCaleb once in the head even though he was cooperating. The witnesses told police that the gunman fled in a gold or tan SUV.
The Schnucks Supercenter at City Plaza Shopping Center anchors a 10-acre, 80,000- square-foot retail center -- the first new full-scale retail center built in north St. Louis since World War II. When the grocer opened in December 1998, Schnucks officials heralded it as a way to rejuvenate the north side and bring a grocer to a neighborhood that was underserved.
Alderman Charles Quincy Troupe, whose ward boundary line is across the street from Schnucks, said a small Sears store was driven out of the shopping plaza last year after numerous burglaries.
Troupe said he went to the crime scene Sunday night and talked to the relatives of the shooting victims. They said both men had been shot in the back of the head, and they figured the victims must have known their attacker to feel comfortable enough to turn their backs on him in the back seat, Troupe said.
kbell@post-dispatch.com -- 314-340-8115
To see more of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.stltoday.com. Copyright (c) 2009, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup.com, call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write to The Permissions Group Inc., 1247 Milwaukee Ave., Suite 303, Glenview, IL 60025, USA.

More News:
Market Updates |
Stock Alerts |
All Trading News |
Stock Index