Editor’s note: Layton’s middle name has been corrected. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged in Randolph County after he allegedly shot someone during a fight on Saturday. Jeffery Dale Layton, 41, was charged on Monday with first-degree domestic assault, armed criminal action, illegal gun possession and unlawful use of a weapon. A no-bond
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 20-year-old man was charged Sunday with two misdemeanors and two felonies for allegedly firing shots in downtown Columbia. Tavan Williams-Patrick of Columbia was charged with the felonies of armed criminal action and exhibiting a weapon illegally, along with the misdemeanors of fourth-degree assault and illegally firing a gun after shots were
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Editor’s Note: The word downtown has been removed from the headline, as the incident occurred closer to Business Loop 70, about a mile from Downtown Columbia. Columbia Police arrested a 38-year-old man for a downtown burglary Sunday morning. A social media post by the department said officers responded to a business in
Continue Reading EDITOR’S NOTE: The headline was updated to accurately reflect the incident. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department has identified 20-year-old Tavan Eric Williams-Patrick of Columbia as the suspect who allegedly fired shots in downtown Columbia early Sunday morning. According to a CPD press release, officers on foot heard shots being fired in the 800
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A New Bloomfield man was charged on Thursday in Callaway County with child sex crimes after authorities say he sexually abused a child in April. Sean James Flanery, 19, was charged with first-degree sodomy of a victim younger than 12 years old and two counts of second-degree child molestation of a child
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was charged Thursday with seven felonies for allegedly being the driver in a weekend shooting at the Interstate 70/Highway 63 connector in Columbia. Mechoal L. Lewis, 52, of Columbia, was in the Boone County Jail on Friday without bond after being charged with first-degree assault, three counts of armed criminal
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A group has filed a lawsuit against Secretary of State Denny Hoskins in their attempt to protect Missouri’s initiative petition process in its current form. Claire Harris, Jamie Howard and Eric Bonner – who are residents of Greene, Cole and St. Louis counties, respectively – wrote that they signed a petition that
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Cole County Jail is holding 14 inmates who have been court-ordered for psychiatric care, but officials are saying they do not have enough facility resources to provide mental health care to inmates. In a Facebook post by Cole County Sheriff John Wheeler, the Cole County Jail has 160 inmates, and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Two people were charged on Tuesday after they were accused of stealing $1,600 from a pair of cash collector machines at a northeast Columbia car wash on Monday. Todd Harget, 37, of Edgar Springs, and Sierra Claxton, 30, of Joplin, were each charged with two counts of organized retail theft and two
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The man found guilty of causing the 1993 Missouri flood was given parole during a hearing last week James Robert Scott, 58, was found guilty decades ago of causing a catastrophe. He is being held at Jefferson City Correctional Center. He was sentenced to life in prison on July 6, 1998. According
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man accused of shooting two people on July 25 at Douglass Park was booked into the Boone County Jail on Monday night. Lenn Dukes, 42, was charged on July 28 in Boone County with two counts of first-degree assault, two counts of armed criminal action, one count of illegal gun
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) One of the seven people arrested following a brawl that occurred early July 26 in downtown Columbia has been charged with a felony and two misdemeanors. Tinoz’shia Harris was charged on Tuesday in Boone County with third-degree assault of a special victim, misdemeanor resisting arrest and misdemeanor causing a peace disturbance. Court
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A migrant who was deported from the United States four times was charged with multiple felonies after he allegedly chased a woman on July 22 in Jefferson City, court documents say. Cesar Garcia-Duarte, 41, was charged on Tuesday in Missouri’s Western District Court with being a felon with a gun, being a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The judge in an appeals case wrote in a Friday decision that a decades-old murder case that has been reinstated may proceed as scheduled. William “Chris” Niemet, of Fulton, is charged with first-degree murder in a 1991 death of his classmate in Russellville. Judge Emily Fretwell had dismissed his charge last month,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The lawsuit Boone Health filed against the Missouri Heart Center was formally dismissed on Wednesday. Court filings show Boone Health filed to dismiss the case on July 24 without prejudice. Boone Health announced the split with Missouri Heart Center at the end of March and subsequently filed a lawsuit alleging breaches of contract, misuse of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A shooting took place at the Interstate 70/Highway 63 Connector and Conley Road on Sunday, and the Columbia Police Department is still looking for the shooter. CPD is still looking to identify the suspect involved and is asking anyone with information to contact them for a reward. A CPD spokesperson declined to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Cooper County prosecutor filed a motion on Thursday to give consent for the case of a “cult-like” Amish leader to be moved to Montgomery County. Sam Shetler, 42, of Boonville, is charged with three counts of trafficking for the purpose of slavery/forced labor, a count of first-degree sodomy, first-degree sex
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A former Cooper County Jail guard received a two-year probation term for her role in an inmate’s death in 2023. Rachel Atherton pleaded guilty to second-degree involuntary manslaughter on Monday. Prosecutors reduced her chare on Friday to the lesser felony. Jazzlyn Johnson, spokesperson for special prosecutors out of Jackson County, said Atherton
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HERMANN, Mo. (KMIZ) More than three years after a Hermann Police Sergeant was shot and killed in the line of duty, his community is working to ensure his legacy and other first responders’ lives on. In June, a jury sentenced Kenneth Simpson to death after convicting him of first-degree murder in Sgt. Mason Griffith’s killing.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. KMIZ EDITORS NOTE: Day in title was corrected. A man was injured after being shot Sunday in east Columbia near the I-70 connector. Sgt. Patrick Corcoran told ABC 17 News that when police arrived on scene, they found a 26-year-old male victim at the Break Time with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. The victim
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