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 –
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman was rushed to a hospital after she was shot Tuesday afternoon in a central Columbia park. Police at the scene did not provide the woman’s name or age. Police were sent to Douglass Park at about 3:40 p.m. and found the injured woman and evidence that shots had been fired,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Police found a suspect in a weekend downtown Columbia shooting getting treatment for his own gunshot wounds early Sunday at a Jefferson City hospital, court documents say. Deandre Denny was charged Tuesday with first-degree assault, armed criminal action and illegal gun possession after the shooting that happened a little before 3 a.m.
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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) Investigators have detained two juveniles in a deadly shooting in Randolph County on Sunday. According to a release from the Randolph County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were called to a home on County Road 2605 at 5:11 p.m. on Sunday. Deputies found Ethan March, 22, dead with a gunshot wound, according to a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Some residents who live in Downtown Columbia say they’re on edge after three people were shot Sunday morning on East Broadway. Finn O’Hagan, a graduate student at the University of Missouri who lives Downtown, said he is not surprised there was a shooting. “It does make me nervous hearing stuff like this
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Callaway County jury last week acquitted a man of seven counts related to child sex crimes. Gilbert Sing was charged in June 2022 with charges including child molestation, sodomy, sexual misconduct and witness tampering. Authorities alleged that the crimes were committed in 2019 and 2020. His trial began last Tuesday and
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Associated Press TUSKEGEE, Ala. (AP) — Tuskegee University student Sid Guynn hid under a car when he heard the gunshots that ripped across his Alabama campus amid homecoming celebrations, then ran back to his dorm, frightened by what sounded to him like a machine gun. “It was terrifying; I couldn’t find my phone or my
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MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) A man has been accused of uploading child pornography to the internet in Moberly. Tyler Marsh, 23, of Centralia, was charged with possessing child pornography and first-degree promoting child porn. He is being held at the Randolph County Jail on a $50,000 bond. A court date has not been set. According to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged with seven felonies after he was allegedly found with hundreds of doses of fentanyl. Kyle Shepherd, 32, was charged with second-degree drug trafficking, two counts of delivery of a controlled substance and four counts of unlawful use of a weapon. He is being held at the Boone
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An Audrain County man was charged Friday with four felonies after he allegedly fired a shot at a vehicle along Highway 54. Jessie L. Deere of Martinsburg, Missouri, is charged with two counts of unlawful use of a weapon, armed criminal action and first-degree harassment. Deere is accused of firing a .38-caliber
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A federal jury on Thursday convicted a Mid-Missouri man and his co-defendant from Tennessee of plotting to travel to the Texas-Mexico border with a plan to murder immigrants and officers. Jonathan S. O’Dell, 34, of Warsaw, Missouri, and Bryan C. Perry, 39, of Clarksville, Tennessee, were found guilty in a federal
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Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Friday disclosed an Iranian murder-for-hire plot to kill Donald Trump, charging a man who said he had been tasked by a government official before this week’s election with planning the assassination of the Republican president-elect. Investigators were told of the plan to kill Trump by Farhad
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A North Carolina woman was indicted by a federal grand jury in Kansas City on Thursday for fraudulently obtaining $20,000 from a Paycheck Protection Program loan in 2021, according to a press release from the Department of Justice. Lakeysha Day, 43, was charged with one count of wire fraud. She was an
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) An elderly man was charged with a felony after he allegedly flashed a gun at his doctor during an appointment on Thursday in at a Madison Street office in Jefferson City. Robert Lynn Cook, born in 1948, of Jefferson City, was charged on Thursday with unlawful use of a weapon and
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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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EDITOR’S NOTE: The county where the alleged crimes took place has been corrected. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Cass County man was charged with six felonies in Pettis County after he allegedly hit a school bus with a stolen truck and camper during a chase with law enforcement on Tuesday. Joshua Ewing, 24, of Strasburg, was
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged with sex crimes after he was accused of raping a youth on Tuesday. Kenny Newland, 26, was charged on Wednesday with first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy. He is being held at the Boone County Jail without bond. A court date has not been set. Court documents say
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Mexico, Missouri, man was charged in Boone County on Wednesday after he was accused of placing a hidden camera in a residential bathroom. Tony Dean Jones Jr. was charged with invasion of privacy, attempted sexual exploitation of a child and misdemeanor attempted invasion of privacy. A motion to set bond was
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KMIZ) A Richland, Missouri, man was sentenced to 40 years in prison without parole on Tuesday for child sex crimes, according to a press release from the Department of Justice. Robert Norman Kennedy, 41, pleaded guilty on Jan. 18 to transporting a minor across state lines with the intent to engage in criminal
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