COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 46-year-old man died in a shooting in north Columbia on Wednesday. Officers were called to a home on Triple Crown Drive a little after 5:30 p.m. About eight police cars were at the scene, many with their flashing lights on, when an ABC 17 News reporter arrived. Crime scene tape was
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PARIS, Mo. (KMIZ) The state has requested more time for evidence discovery in its case against Patty and Lois Armour. Lois Armour, 78, and Patty Armour, 51, both of Paris, are charged with second-degree murder and hindering a felony prosecution. The state was expected to present its case against Lois Armour on Wednesday in a
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The spelling of the suspect’s last name has been corrected. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Newberg man was charged Monday with first-degree murder and armed criminal action after his brother died in a shooting. Eric D. Colgrove, 55, was arrested Sunday night after a woman called 911, saying her sons were shooting at each
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man pleaded guilty to murdering his mother’s roommate in October 2022 on Friday. Adam Conner, 40, appeared by video and changed his plea of not guilty to a plea of guilty before a Boone County judge. Conner was charged with second-degree murder and tampering with evidence. He pleaded guilty to second-degree
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A suspect involved in a deadly shooting on Dove Drive in north Columbia in 2023 took a plea deal Thursday. Damarkus Williams, 20, was given a 10-year sentence in the Missouri Department of Corrections for a guilty plea to second-degree conspiracy to commit murder. Williams had been charged with first-degree murder, three
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia teen has been charged with murder for a May deadly shooting just outside the city limits. Anthony K. Marine, 17, was charged Thursday with second-degree murder, two counts of armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon in the death of a person identified in a probable cause statement
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) More than six years after two Columbia residents were shot and killed in northeast Columbia, their families and police are still searching for answers. “Something that was different about this scene than others, it was very quiet,” Columbia Police Department Lt. Matt Gremore said. Just after 3 a.m. Sept. 22, 2019, police
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia teenager was charged as an adult with murder in Randolph County on Monday, a year after he was accused of shooting a man to death. Da’Caveon W. Nelson, 17, has been certified as an adult. Prosecutors have asked that he be brought to the Randolph County Jail from the Clay
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) More than six years after a string of homicides and gun violence struck Columbia, police and the former mayor spoke with ABC 17 News about a violent September. “I think I referred to it at the time as a hurricane of violence that was circling our community,” former Columbia Mayor Brian Treece
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The destruction of suspected killer Sergio Sayles’ car was out of the Jefferson City Police Department’s hands, officers testified Wednesday during the bench trial for the murder of Jasmine King. Sayles’ car, which was also his home at the time of King’s killing, has been a point of contention throughout the trial. Before the
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Police have released the name of the man killed Saturday in a shooting outside the Jefferson City Old Navy store. Jefferson City Police said in a news release Tuesday that Erik Spencer was the shooting victim. Two of Spencer’s family members confirmed his identity to ABC 17 News. Spencer was a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The former Jefferson City Police Detective took the stand Tuesday during the bench trial for suspected killer Sergio Sayles. “When I said she was dead and then murdered, there was no follow-up of how or anything like that and through my experience of death notifications, through all the different reactions, that’s a very
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) EDITOR’S NOTE: AI was used to help research the background for this story. A Jefferson City man accused of stabbing the mother of his child began his bench trial at the Boone County Courthouse on Monday. Sergio Sayles, 39, faces charges of first-degree murder, armed criminal action, tampering with evidence and first-degree
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man was charged Saturday with manslaughter after a deadly electric scooter crash on Highway 50. Jervontaye I. Warmack, 32, was charged with second-degree involuntary manslaughter, two counts of child endangerment and driving while intoxicated. Police say Warmack was driving a Chevrolet SUV when he hit the unnamed electric
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County judge ordered a Columbia man committed indefinitely to the Missouri Department of Mental Health on Wednesday after accepting his insanity plea in the death of his father and subsequent fire. Steven Strumpf had been set for trial on first-degree murder, armed criminal action, second-degree arson and credit card fraud
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By Associated Press (CNN) — An Illinois jury on Wednesday convicted a former sheriff’s deputy of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 asking for help. Sean Grayson, 31, could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison, or probation. Sentencing is scheduled for January 29.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The trial of a Jefferson City woman accused of killing a 4-year-old boy will take place next summer with a jury brought in from a different county. Online court records say a July 26, 2026, trial date was set for Quatavia Givens, who is accused of the 2018 death of Darnell
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Editor’s note: The lede of this story was corrected to reflect the crash occurred in 2024. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An 18-year-old man from Macon pleaded guilty Monday to four counts, including manslaughter, in a 2024 crash in southern Columbia. Ty Frey pleaded guilty in Boone County before Judge Ben Miller to first-degree involuntary manslaughter, careless
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man accused of shooting and killing two women last week pleaded not guilty in his first court appearance since being indicted by a grand jury on Thursday. Michael Davis, 40, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, three counts of armed criminal action and a single count of unlawful use of
Continue Reading PARIS, Mo. (KMIZ) Two women were jailed in Randolph County on suspicion of hindering prosecution in a homicide investigation that ended with a man shot dead by law enforcement officers. Lois Armour, 78, and Patty Armour, 51, both of Paris, Missouri, were arrested Sunday night and booked into the Randolph County Jail without bond, according
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