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Law enforcement arrests man after 78-year-old woman shot Tuesday morning

Jesse Roberts
Greene County Jail
Jesse Roberts

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

The Dixon Police Department said the man accused in the shooting of a 78-year-old woman that occurred on Tuesday morning has been detained.

DPD wrote on its Facebook page that the woman was shot around 6:25 a.m. in the 300 block of East 10th Street in Dixon. She was shot in the arm, was brought to University Hospital in Columbia and is now stable, police wrote.

Jesse Roberts, 31, was arrested by the Greene County Sheriff's Department at 4:20 p.m. outside of Springfield. He was listed on the Green County Jail roster on Tuesday night.

Once the investigation concludes, the case be forwarded to the Pulaski County prosecutor’s office.

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