COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A special prosecutor decided Thursday that two Callaway County deputies who had a fatal shootout with a suspect will not face charges. Cpl. Justin Bax and Deputy Gardner Pottorff were shot on Oct. 14 during an exchange of gunfire with a Texas man, Jonathan Beason. Beason died from gunshot wounds suffered in
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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) – A Jackson County judge blocked Missouri’s near-total abortion ban Friday following the passage of a statewide constitutional amendment in November. Judge Jerri Zhang’s 22-page ruling temporarily blocks several state laws regulating the procedure. That includes Missouri’s law banning abortions except for a medical emergency. Planned Parenthood sued the state shortly after
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 17-year-old has been charged with three felonies for allegedly shooting at a woman and her children in the parking lot of Academy Sports this summer. Myron S. Mills of Columbia was charged Friday with first-degree attempted assault, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon in connection with the July
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A special prosecutor won’t file charges against Boone County deputies and Columbia police officers involved in a shootout that ended in the suspect’s death. Officers shot and killed Damion A. Linder during a standoff at a Sturgeon mobile home park in early June. Marion County Prosecuting Attorney Luke Bryant decided last month
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) School of the Osage has canceled all Thursday night activities and home athletic events after a threat was phone into its middle school, the district wrote in a Thursday afternoon social media post. “Today at 2:58 PM, our middle school received a phoned-in threat to the building. Immediately upon receiving the information
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) Balloons, lit candles, songs and tears were the sight Wednesday night in Fulton, as community members of all ages packed into a church parking lot to honor Dominique Ford. Ford, 27, of Fulton died after an October shooting. According to an October social media post from the Fulton Police Department, police found
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The parents of a Phelps County baby who died of a fentanyl overdose last year are in custody. Caleb Deon Gorman, 25, of Salem, and Corissa Dessie Botkin, 24, of Rolla, are charged with child abuse resulting in death. Gorman was arrested Tuesday morning and Botkin was arrested that evening, the Phelps
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A jury awarded a former Lincoln University employee with $1,271,000 in damages in a discrimination case. Sheila Gassner had sued the school in 2019, claiming that her compensation was lower than her African-American counterparts, according to previous reporting. Gassner is white and worked for the university for nearly 30 years until
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Moberly man was indicted by a federal grand jury on Wednesday after he was accused of committing pandemic-related fraud. Steven Hendren, 32, was indicted in the Eastern District Court of Missouri in St. Louis for three counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, according to a Wednesday
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Prairie Home man has been sentenced for a federal charge involving child pornography. Bradley Leigh Knecht, 30, was sentenced on Wednesday to 45 years in prison without parole, according to a press release from the Department of Justice. The court also ordered that he spend the rest of his life on
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man who was accused of an assault that killed a man in November has a trial date set for the spring. Alexander Aklan, 28, was charged with first-degree assault, second-degree drug trafficking, unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal action. He is being held at the Boone County Jail
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man who was charged with first-degree murder in a fatal stabbing at Douglass Park in April was deemed incompetent on Monday. Demetrice Tatum, 39, was charged in April with first-degree murder and armed criminal action after he allegedly stabbed Kejuan Allen to death at Douglass Park. He is still listed on the Boone
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A retired Jefferson City priest who admitted to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the church over the summer has now been sentenced for sending part of the money to his sister. The Rev. Ignazio C. Medina, also known as Ignatius, was sentenced Wednesday to three months in federal prison
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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) After winning in the November election, Mike Kehoe will serve as Missouri’s 58th governor next year. Kehoe had served as lieutenant governor since 2018, after he was appointed by Gov. Mike Parson in 2018 and won the seat in the 2020 election. Prior to that, he served in the Missouri Senate. Kehoe
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services has reported the first significant overdose death decrease since 2015, with 1,948 deaths in 2023. The department says 1,310 overdose deaths were caused by synthetic opioids, 18 by heroin with a synthetic drug present and five deaths caused by heroin alone. According to the
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Fulton man accused of trafficking methamphetamine was sentenced on Tuesday to 15 years in prison, according to a press release from the Department of Justice. Clayton Key Craddock, 40, pleaded guilty on Feb. 29 to possessing meth with the intent to distribute, the release says. The release says that law
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CNN By John Miller, Emma Tucker, Shimon Prokupecz, Kara Scannell and Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — A Manhattan grand jury on Tuesday indicted Luigi Mangione for murder as an act of terrorism in the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, according to newly released court documents. Mangione faces 11 counts, including one of murder
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man who was found guilty of manslaughter and other charges is appealing the case. Cadilac Derrick, 37, was found guilty by a Boone County jury of first-degree involuntary manslaughter, voluntary manslaughter, second-degree domestic assault and two counts of armed criminal action. He was sentenced in November to 62 years in prison.
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