Coroner: Suspect killed self

Melvin Keeling's body was found Wednesday.
GARY, Ind. (AP) -- An Ohio man wanted in the shooting deaths of a suburban Cincinnati teenager and two convenience store employees in northwestern Indiana shot himself to death, likely the day after the slayings, a coroner said Thursday.
Teenagers found the body of Melvin Keeling, 43, on Wednesday near train tracks a few hundred yards from where Keeling's van had been found Sept. 20, the morning after the shootings.
Authorities thought the decomposing body was Keeling because the serial number of a gun found nearby matched one he bought, and tests Thursday confirmed the identity.
Keeling, 43, of Loveland Park, Ohio, used a .40-caliber Glock to shoot himself behind his right ear, Lake County Coroner David J. Pastrick said.
Keeling probably killed himself in a hidden area on a blanket, and wild animals later dragged the remains out to the open, Pastrick said.
Police reports
Keeling shot 13-year-old Katelind Caudill in her grandmother's Ohio home as the girl got ready for school, police said.
Just days before the deaths, Caudill's best friend -- a daughter of Keeling's live-in girlfriend -- told Katelind that Keeling had been molesting her the past three years. Katelind confronted him, calling him a pedophile, according to a sheriff's department affidavit.
About four hours after the Caudill shooting, two convenience store employees, Lisa Kendall, 29, of Rensselaer, Ind., and Kendora Furr, 38, of Remington, Ind., were shot and killed at a store in Remington.
Dennis Caudill, grandfather of Katelind Caudill, said he was notified of the identification by Gena Eaton, the girl's mother.
"Knowing that he didn't get completely away with it is some kind of closure," he said.
Keeling's body and handgun were found about 100 yards from an area that had been searched several times, said Stanley Borgia, special agent in charge of the FBI's Cincinnati office.
The body was decomposed but was identified through medical and dental records, Pastrick said.
Authorities did not immediately know if the gun found was used in the killings.
After he fled Ohio, Keeling was indicted by a Warren County grand jury on 33 felony counts of gross sexual imposition and two counts of rape.
The FBI had offered a $25,000 reward for help finding Keeling. The Family Express company had put up $10,000.