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Two employees found slain inside Steak 'n Shake in Green Park ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 11/10/2008 GREEN PARK -- Two restaurant workers were found dead inside an all-night Steak 'n Shake in South St. Louis County early this morning. The bodies of the workers, a man and a woman, were found inside the store at 5828 South Lindbergh Boulevard. Police said that one of the victims is a 24-year-old man who worked at the restaurant as a cook. The other victim is a 44-year-old woman who worked there as a waitress. Police identified them as Tammy Cantrell of south St. Louis County and Mark Gerstner of of Arnold. Both were fatally shot. Police believe that the store was being robbed between 2:30 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. today when the two workers were killed. "These two unfortunately were victims in that robbery," said Tracy Panus, a spokeswoman for the St. Louis County Police Department. The St. Louis County Police Department asked this afternoon for the public's help to learn more about the killings. Anyone with information is asked to call the department at 314-889-2341 or CrimeStoppers at 1-866-371-TIPS. It appears the business had closed at midnight for extermination efforts for pest control and was scheduled to reopen this morning. The bug spraying had already been completed and the two victims were in the restaurant preparing to open the store when the crime occured. A vendor on his regular route went into the restaurant about 4:50 a.m. and found one of the victims in the back of the store. When emergency crews arrived, they found a second worker inside the store. The two bodies were not found near one another, police said. Investigators were studying store receipts to see if they could pinpoint what time the killings occurred. They are also reviewing surveillance tapes from the restaurant and surrounding businesses. Police have no suspects at this time. Police said there was a lot of blood found inside. "We're still trying to determine what happened," Panus said. "We're wide open." Restaurant employees milled about the parking lot, embracing each other. Among them was Flo Peeler, who was featured in a story in the Post-Dispatch in 2004. Peeler was featured because she was called a "super-waitress who bakes scores of birthday cakes each year for her regular customers." Restaurant managers at the scene declined to talk to a reporter, referring all questions to a spokesman at the company's headquarters in Indianapolis. That spokesman was unavailable to comment. The restaurant on Lindbergh is located between Tesson Ferry Road and Interstate 55 in the city of Green Park. Green Park, with a population of about 3,500, has a contract for police services with the St. Louis County Police Department. Green Park's City Hall is within 100 yards of the restaurant. "It's scary," said Tony Konopka, the mayor of Green Park, who eats at this Steak 'n Shake restaurant every so often. "It's frightening, something like that could happen. This has been a very quiet, for the most part, peaceful neighborhood." Just a few months ago in Green Park, two residents died in a murder-suicide. On Aug. 29, Michael Weathers, 50, apparently shot his wife, Mary Weathers, 47, inside their home on the 9400 block of Green Park Valley Drive. Michael Weathers then turned the gun on himself. In 2003, Peeler successfully mated a male duck with a female orangutang.