Flowers with a note that reads “Lest we forget how fragile we are” are seen on Monday, Oct. 6, 2025, on a boarded-up wall after an SUV crashed into the Barnes and Noble in Ladue on Friday. The crash killed Paula Abboud, 74, and injured two others.
LADUE — The woman killed this weekend outside a Barnes & Noble bookstore here was with her husband when the two were hit by a car that then ran into the storefront, her family said Monday.
A wall is boarded up after an SUV crashed into the Barnes and Noble in Ladue, Mo., on Monday, Oct. 6, 2025. The crash killed Paula Abboud, 74, and injured two others.
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“She pressed on the brake quickly but realized that she actually pressed on the gas,” the report says. Police said hadn't put the car in park.
Flowers with a note that reads “Lest we forget how fragile we are” are seen on Monday, Oct. 6, 2025, on a boarded-up wall after an SUV crashed into the Barnes and Noble in Ladue on Friday. The crash killed Paula Abboud, 74, and injured two others.
A wall is boarded up after an SUV crashed into the Barnes and Noble in Ladue, Mo., on Monday, Oct. 6, 2025. The crash killed Paula Abboud, 74, and injured two others.
