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Anicia Yankton, 34, a Publix cashier, died after being shot in the head at her checkout lane inside a crowded Orlando supermarket on March 2, 2010, and her estranged husband, Andreau Yankton, 62, shot himself minutes later in the parking lot, Orlando police said.

Anicia Yankton was working a register near the front entrance of the store at South Orange Avenue and Pineloch Street, south of downtown Orlando, when Andreau Yankton stepped up behind a bagger and fired over her shoulder about 8 p.m., according to police and witness accounts. She died about four hours later at Orlando Regional Medical Center.

The two were still married but living apart, Orlando police spokesman Sgt. Pat Guckian said. Andreau Yankton walked out of the store still holding the gun, and an Orlando police patrol officer confronted him in the lot. He shot himself in the chest and was pronounced dead at a hospital that night, police said.

Customers described panic in the aisles. Ron Legler, 40, told the Orlando Sentinel he was talking on his cell phone near the cleaning products when he heard a loud "crack," followed by screams of "Oh my God. Get out of the store." Legler said he held open a set of doors so about 10 women could reach an emergency exit, then shouted for them to come back inside when more gunfire sounded outside. Customers and employees called 911 as the store emptied, and the recording of those calls runs about 17 minutes.

Two of Andreau Yankton's former wives had gone to court seeking protection from him, Orange County Circuit Court records show. Marietta Yankton, who married him in 1968 and divorced him in 1997, asked for a domestic violence injunction in 2002 and was denied. Teresita Caneda obtained one in 1996, then married him in 1997 and divorced him in 2003. He was a state licensed insurance salesman who filed for bankruptcy in Orlando in 2000 and lost his east Orange County home to foreclosure in 2007.

The store, one of the busiest Publix locations in Central Florida, normally had off duty law enforcement officers working security, but none was there when the shooting happened, Publix spokeswoman Maria Brous said. One off duty officer had left shortly before. The company brought in grief counselors for employees and reopened the store the following day.

Anicia Yankton was from the Philippines and had worked at the store for a few months, co-workers said. "She's just a good lady," Bill Roth, a customer who shopped there daily, told the Orlando Sentinel. A week after the shooting, the Orange-Osceola Medical Examiner's Office said her sister was trying to travel from the Philippines to Orlando to arrange the funeral.