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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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) Police arrested an 18-year-old Columbia man on suspicion of firing shots in the area of McKee Street Park. Alex Keitt, 18, was arrested Wednesday after police served warrants in the 1900 block of North Waterfront Drive and the 1400 block of Grindstone Plaza Drive, according to a Columbia Police Department news release.
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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) 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) 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) 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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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison for assault in connection with a deadly 2022 shooting. Corey Blueitt, 45, was found guilty in September of third-degree assault. A grand jury had indicted him on first-degree murder and armed criminal action, as well, but a jury found him not
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A California, Missouri, woman was charged Tuesday with five felonies after she allegedly shot her roommate in the leg and hand. Crystal L. Moore, 50, was charged with first-degree domestic assault, armed criminal action, unlawful use of a weapon and two counts of drug possession for a shooting Tuesday at a California
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was found with injuries after a Friday shooting in Fulton has died, according to the Fulton Police Department. The Fulton Police Department said earlier on Friday that officers were called to the 1400 block of Route C (Mokane Road) and found a man inside a home with life-threatening injuries
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The man shot Sunday night in northeast Columbia has died. The Columbia Police Department said in a news release Thursday that Orrion Moody, 28, of Columbia, died Wednesday at the Columbia hospital where he was treated for his wounds. Police on Wednesday arrested Tavion Johnson, 19, on six felony charges including armed
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man has been charged with six felonies after a shooting Sunday night left a man with life-threatening injuries. Tavion R. Johnson, 19, was charged Wednesday with two counts of first-degree assault, three counts of armed criminal action and one count of unlawful use of a weapon after what court documents
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Police arrested two Columbia men this week in connection with shots being fired in a residential area, bringing the total number of suspects to four.
Continue Reading Columbia police say they’ve arrested a second juvenile in connection with a shots-fired incident last Thursday.
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Columbia police arrested a 25-year-old man early Friday after shots were fired along Clark Lane.
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A jealous ex-lover was responsible for the shooting that sent a man to the hospital early Sunday in Columbia, police say in court documents.
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A Boone County judge sentenced a Kirksville, Missouri, man Friday to 10 years in state prison for a deadly shooting.
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A Columbia man accused last week of shooting at a group of people downtown has been charged with four felonies.
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UPDATE: Charges against Freeman were later dropped. CALLAWAY COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) – Deputies have arrested one person after they and another were shot in Callaway County on Saturday morning. The Callaway County Sheriff’s Office said that it arrested 42-year-old Kibby Freeman of Mexico, Mo. The office said in a Facebook post that Freeman was a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department confirmed Sunday afternoon shots were fired in West Columbia Friday night. In a social media post, the department said it responded to the 1000 block of Interstate 70 Drive Southwest for a report of shots fired at 7:37 p.m. The post states footage from a nearby business shows
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