VERSAILLES, Mo. (KMIZ) – Police have arrested a 23-year-old man for a reported stabbing on Friday afternoon. The Versailles Police Department said it took Codee Munson into custody for allegedly stabbing 69-year-old Carl Vernon Goodman. Munson faces possible charges of second-degree murder and armed criminal action. A news release said officers were dispatched to the
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A Boone County grand jury indicted a Springfield, Missouri, man Friday with murder in a local crash.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was charged Friday with murder and a woman with manslaughter in a November beating death in Columbia. Alexander A. Aklan, 28, of Columbia, was charged with second-degree murder in the death of Antonio Davis, 56, of Columbia. He had already been charged with first-degree assault, drug trafficking, armed criminal action
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Prosecutors charged a man Tuesday with murder for his alleged role in a deadly October shooting and charged another man — who was already in custody and charged — with murder. Daevion McCray, 21, was arrested Tuesday in connection with the death of Orrion Moody, 28, of Columbia. Police found Moody with
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A St. Louis woman who pleaded guilty to the death of her infant whose body was found behind a Columbia tire store was sentenced Monday to probation. Lavosha Daniels was sentenced to four years in prison on a charge of corpse abandonment and seven years for involuntary manslaughter. The sentences would run
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man admitted to fatally shooting a St. Louis man last week in the parking lot of a Boone County bar, court documents say. Steven S. Jones, 45, was charged Sunday with being a felon with a gun. A probable cause statement says Jones admitted to shooting the 42-year-old victim outside
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Associated Press BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — Rowan Ford knew Christopher Collings as “Uncle Chris” after he spent several months living with her family. On Tuesday, Collings was executed for sexually assaulting and killing the child, then dumping her body in a sinkhole outside a small Missouri town. Collings, 49, was put to death with
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man pleaded guilty Monday to murdering his father. Alen Muslic, 23, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a Boone County courtroom. Muslic was charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action after police found his father, Zufer Muslic, stabbed to death at their Columbia home in October 2023. Alen Muslic
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Centralia man was charged Tuesday with causing another person’s death in an Osage County DWI crash. Nathan L. Timpe, 20, was charged with DWI causing death, two counts of DWI causing serious injuries and one count of careless driving, a misdemeanor. Timpe was driving a Jeep Wrangler in Osage County last
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A juvenile was charged as an adult Friday in a deadly shooting in Columbia. According to online court records, Cordero Riley Jr, 17,. is charged with first-degree assault, second-degree murder, unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal action in connection with the death of Trevon Ashcraft, 18, in May. Riley is
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A third man suspected of murder in a deadly June 2023 shooting pleaded guilty Friday.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The video has been cropped to protect sensitive evidence at the request of police. FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) Fulton police have released surveillance video of a person of interest in an October homicide investigation. Police provided ABC 17 News this week with the video from the scene of a deadly shooting on Mokane Road.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two people have been charged with murder in the July overdose death of a 62-year-old Mexico, Missouri woman. Shelbi R. Hamilton and Timothy R. Hoffman, both of Mexico, were charged Tuesday. Hamilton is charged with second-degree murder and delivery of a controlled substance. Hoffman is charged with second-degree murder, delivery of a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 20-year-old man was sentenced to 21 years in state prison Monday after he pleaded guilty to a reduced murder charge for a June 2023 shooting. Alqueze M. Jones of Columbia pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree murder in a Boone County courtroom, Boone County Prosecuting Attorney Roger Johnson said. He had been
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man found guilty of the death of two women in 2022 was sentenced to over 60 years in prison on Tuesday. A Boone County judge sentenced Cadilac Derrick to 62 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections for five felonies. Derrick was found guilty of killing two Columbia women –
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man accused in a deadly Columbia shooting in summer 2023 waived arraignment Tuesday. Deljuan Turner’s arraignment was held Tuesday morning at the Boone County Courthouse. Another suspect, Damarkus Williams, will be arraigned Dec. 2, according to court records. Turner and Williams had their charges changed from second-degree murder to first-degree murder,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A judge in Boone County has ordered a local man extradited to Indiana immediately to face murder and rape charges in a 1993 Indianapolis homicide. Dana Shepherd, 52, of Columbia, is accused of killing Carmen Van Huss in March 1993. Police said the victim was found dead with signs of a struggle
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A St. Louis woman who had been charged with covering up her baby’s death pleaded guilty Monday to reduced charges. Lavosha Daniels, 32, of St. Louis, pleaded guilty to abandoning a corpse and first-degree involuntary manslaughter, Boone County Prosecuting Attorney Roger Johnson said. She had been charged with corpse abandonment and child
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Military investigators are seeking charges against a U.S. Army specialist for allegedly killing one of his fellow soldiers. Spc. Wooster Rancy, 21, with the 5th Engineer Battalion, is suspected of murder in the death of Sgt. Sarah Roque, Fort Leonard Wood officials wrote in a Facebook post Thursday. The base in Pulaski
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County prosecutors have charged a St. Louis man and two Columbia men with murder in the death of a Columbia teenager on Thursday. Byron Sampson, 20, is charged with second-degree murder after he is accused of killing Traquan Reed, 18, on Thursday. Julius J. Mosby, 18, and Demetrius L. Mays, 22,
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