Homicide Archives

Callaway County killer gets execution date

December 13, 2023 10:42 AM Matthew Sanders

A man convicted in 2008 of the murders of a New Bloomfield couple is set to be executed in April.

First-degree murder charge filed in Columbia killing

December 11, 2023 9:53 AM Matthew Sanders, Jazsmin Halliburton

A Columbia man faces a capital murder charge after a woman found shot Friday in the neck next to a truck died.

Columbia homicide victim’s family to hold balloon release following arrest of suspect

December 9, 2023 10:53 AM Marina Diaz

The Columbia Police Department arrested John Lonce Williamson III, 27, of Columbia early Saturday morning in connection to a homicide that occurred on Friday.

Audrain County teen charged with premeditated murder in Vandalia-area shooting

December 1, 2023 11:53 AM Matthew Sanders, Jazsmin Halliburton

An Audrain County man was charged Friday with first-degree murder.

Murder charge filed after elderly man found stabbed to death in Cole County

November 27, 2023 10:31 AM Matthew Sanders

Prosecutors have charged a Jefferson City woman with first-degree murder in the weekend stabbing death of an 80-year-old man.

Jury convicts Columbia man of manslaughter in drug overdose death

November 16, 2023 5:26 PM Matthew Sanders

A Boone County jury convicted a Columbia man Thursday of manslaughter and drug charges in a September 2020 overdose death.

Johnson County prosecutors file charges in Warrensburg killings

November 16, 2023 11:14 AM Madison Stuerman

Johnson County prosecutors have filed charges against Jonathan Goodwin Jr. after he was accused of shooting and killing two people.

Harrisburg man dies, another suspected of DWI in Boone County crash

October 28, 2023 10:36 AM Nia Hinson

A Harrisburg man was killed in a Saturday crash and another man is suspected of causing the deadly rollover while intoxicated.

Man involved in deadly Columbia shooting sentenced to one year in jail

October 13, 2023 12:53 PM Gabrielle Teiner

A Columbia man accused in a deadly spring 2020 shooting was sentenced Friday to a year in the Boone County Jail.

Indiana woman pleads guilty in Callaway County murder case

October 12, 2023 4:03 PM Matthew Sanders

An Indiana woman pleaded guilty to a lesser charge Thursday after being accused of helping in a 2019 murder.

Columbia woman sentenced to prison after guilty plea in deadly motorcycle crash

October 6, 2023 5:15 PM Matthew Sanders, Morgan Buresh

A Columbia woman originally charged with four felonies in a deadly 2021 crash with a motorcycle instead pleaded guilty to one Friday and was sentenced to seven years in prison.

December certification hearing set for juvenile suspect in south Columbia homicide

October 6, 2023 2:18 PM Matthew Sanders

A juvenile suspect in the May killing of a woman at her south Columbia home could be ordered to stand trial as an adult this winter.

Boone County judge denies motion to throw out murder charge in baby’s death

October 2, 2023 11:30 AM Hannah Falcon

The murder charge against the father of a baby found dead in Columbia will stay as the case heads to a jury trial early next year.

Documents: Mother of Columbia boy killed by gunshot gave conflicting stories

September 26, 2023 10:06 AM Matthew Sanders

The mother of a 3-year-old boy who was shot dead Sunday told police conflicting stories after the child was shot, according to court documents.

Columbia police arrest man accused in child’s shooting death

September 25, 2023 11:35 AM Morgan Buresh, Matthew Sanders, Ryan Shiner

Boone County’s top prosecutor said Monday that his office has charged a man with second-degree murder and other violent felonies after the shooting death of a 3-year-old Sunday.

Prosecutor files first-degree murder charge in Monroe County death

September 25, 2023 12:43 PM Matthew Sanders

Prosecutors have enhanced a murder charge and added another charge against a Monroe County man accused in a 2021 killing.

Shooter in Black Friday killing in mall parking lot sentenced to prison

September 18, 2023 11:14 AM Matthew Sanders

A Jefferson City man who told police he was holstering his gun when he accidentally shot another man in the Columbia Mall parking lot in 2017 was sentenced last week to four years in prison.

Attorney asks for Columbia child death charges to be thrown out

September 14, 2023 4:31 PM Lucas Geisler

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The attorney for the man accused of killing a baby and leaving its body behind a store wants his most-serious charges dismissed. Staffone Fountain, 31, was charged with second-degree murder, first-degree endangering the welfare of a child and abandoning a corpse. He is being held in the Boone County Jail without bond.

Douglass Park shooter gets nearly two decades in prison

September 8, 2023 2:36 PM Matthew Sanders

A man who pleaded guilty last month to manslaughter and other charges in a deadly 2020 Douglass Park shooting was sentenced to almost two decades behind bars Friday.

Third murder suspect arrested in Columbia drug overdose

August 28, 2023 10:49 AM Matthew Sanders

Jonathan G. Shelley, 31, of Columbia, turned himself in at the Boone County Sheriff’s Office.