Judge orders adult certification investigation for juvenile charged in deadly southwest Columbia shooting
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A minor charged in connection with a Southwest Columbia robbery turned shooting could be certified as an adult.
The minor, whose name ABC 17 News is not releasing until charges are filed in adult court, appeared at a hearing in juvenile court Wednesday. He was one of four people arrested Tuesday in connection with a deadly shooting that took place in the 1400 block of Ridgemont Court on Sunday.
Alexis Baumann, of Hallsville, Kobe Aust and Joseph Crane, both of Columbia, were charged with second-degree murder, armed criminal action and first-degree robbery. All three are 18 years old. They each have a hearing set for Wednesday afternoon.
The male juvenile is facing the same charges along with felony theft.
Court documents filed in the case say that Baumann and the group arranged to buy a phone from the victim, Michael R. Burke. The group had already met with and stolen from at least two other victims in the two days before the confrontation that led to Burke's death, documents say. Those incidents took place on Claudell Lane and on Northampton Drive.
Officers were sent to the 1400 block of Ridgemont Court at about 8:15 p.m. Sunday and found Burke shot. Baumann allegedly told officers that the juvenile suspect shot Burke, took his iPhone, then sold it at an ecoATM at the Walmart on Conley Road.
All three adults admitted to police that the group was at Ridgemont Court on the night of the shooting, according to court documents.
The boy appeared before a Boone County judge on Wednesday for a detention hearing. The state requested that he be kept at the juvenile detention center until an adult certification investigation can be completed. The defense requested in-home detention.
The judge ordered the boy to stay in juvenile detention until his next court hearing on Tuesday. She also granted the defense's request for an in-home detention investigation and the state's request for an adult certification investigation.
