Suspect faces murder charge after shooting death

A Columbia man now faces a murder charge after another man wounded in a shooting Sunday night died.

The Boone County Sheriff’s Department said Myron T. Woods, 43, of Kansas City, who was shot Sunday in the 5600 block of Clark Lane, died Wednesday morning. A second Kansas City man shot in the incident was treated and released from a hospital.

Michael C. Stapleton, 34, was initially charged Tuesday afternoon with assault, armed criminal action and unlawful possession of a firearm. He now faces a second-degree murder charge, the sheriff’s department said.

Stapleton turned himself in late Monday at the Boone County Sheriff’s Department after he was accused of shooting two people in a parking lot in the 5600 block of Clark Lane.

Stapleton was in the car with the two victims using PCP, court documents said. One of the victims said Stapleton pulled out a gun and shot the other victim in the head. The victim then got out of the car and struggled with Stapleton for the gun before the victim was shot in the leg, according to the probable cause statement. Stapleton then fled the scene.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol found the two shooting victims Sunday night after pulling over a car on I-70 at mile marker 89 in Cooper County. A medical helicopter and ambulance came to the scene on I-70 shortly after troopers had pulled over the car.

Stapleton was later found at a gas station in east Columbia with the gun. He told store clerks someone was trying to kill him and asked the clerks to call his mom, according to court documents. A clerk got the gun from Stapleton and disassembled it before Boone County Sheriff’s deputies arrived.

According to the statement, Stapleton admitted to being in the car, using the drugs, carrying the firearm and shooting it in the car.

Stapleton is being held in the Boone County Jail with no bond.