Ex-Team USA skate star ‘gunned down in Starbucks drive-thru’ by maniac on cops’ wanted list

A former Team USA skater was shot to death by a maniac wanted by police during a drive-thru robbery at a Missouri Starbucks, according to reports.

Gabrielle ‘Sam’ Linehan, 28, of St. While she was sitting in her car at a coffee shop in St. Louis’ Tower Grove East neighborhood, Keith Lamon Brown, who is also accused of two similar shootings days earlier, allegedly held her at gunpoint before opening fire Tuesday morning. New York Post.

Surveillance footage shows Brown, 58, wearing a high-vis vest and helmet, walking towards Linehan’s car and telling him to put his hands up before shooting the defenseless woman, police allege.

Linehan, who won the silver medal for Team USA at the 2014 USA Synchronized Skating Championships, was taken to the hospital, where it was announced that he died.

Brown is accused of stealing multiple debit cards and a driver’s license before fleeing the scene. After being found by police and arrested Wednesday, he was charged with first-degree murder, three counts of first-degree robbery, four counts of armed criminal action and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm.

Accordingly Fox 2 NowBrown was also wanted by police for two armed robberies in the days before Linehan’s murder. He is also alleged to have a criminal history dating back to the mid-1980s.