A Jefferson City woman who was left in critical condition after a weekend shooting has died and her shooter has been arrested, the Cole County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday.
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FULTON, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman accused of being an accessory to a murder had no change made to her bond following a hearing Wednesday at the Callaway County Courthouse. Emily Ricketts, 26, of Indianapolis, Indiana, is still being held without bond at the Callaway County Jail. Her next hearing will be 10:30 a.m. Jan. 6,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department announced in a press release and on Twitter that it arrested a man in connection to a Nov. 2 shooting on Clark Lane. CPD arrested 23-year-old Noah Solbrekken, of Columbia, during a traffic stop Tuesday in the 1300 block of Paris Road. At approximately 5 p.m. Nov. 2,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man faces several assault and weapons charges following a shots-fired incident in north Columbia on Monday. Montrez Ricketts, 43, was charged with three counts of first-degree assault, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon. He is being held without bond at the Boone County Jail. Columbia police officers
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MONROE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A state appeals court upheld a murder verdict for a former Missouri prison guard that killed his bride-to-be. The Western District Court of Appeals on Tuesday denied James Addie’s request to overturn his first-degree murder and armed-criminal action convictions. The appeals court said Cole County Judge Jon Beetem properly allowed a
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia woman was charged with trespassing on a school bus and peace disturbance after police say she threatened children on a bus in October. The Columbia Police Department said in a probable cause statement that it had video of Alexis Harvey-Phillips, 24, entering a school bus and screaming and yelling at
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Police closed part of an east Columbia residential street Tuesday.
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An Audrain County teenager will spend two years on supervised probation for making a threat about a school shooting.
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Central Bank of Boone County said Monday that an unusual number of its customers were the victims of debit and credit card fraud.
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Police were sent to a shots-fired call Monday in a commercial area of north Columbia.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Hallsville man arrested on Friday has now been charged. Nicholas Brunda, 39, has been charged with four felonies and one misdemeanor after he is accused of firing a gun at a residential building on Friday. Property damaged was observed, but no injuries were reported, according to the Boone County Sheriff’s Office. He was
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A Kansas City man accused of murdering two people inside a Jefferson City bar early Saturday was denied bond in his first court appearance Monday.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The article was updated with the correct name of the suspect. COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An area contractor pleaded guilty on Monday to several charges involving deceptive business practices. Blake Mahoney pleaded guilty to stealing $25,000 or more and several counts of passing a bad check. He pleaded guilty to nine charges over four
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri State Highway Patrol said on Monday that eight people died on during the Thanksgiving counting period, which lasted from 6 p.m. Wednesday through 11:59 p.m. Sunday, according to a news release. In addition, there were 115 people injured, 113 arrests made for driving while intoxicated, 414 crashes and 35
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia woman accused of driving while intoxicated and causing serious physical injury to a law enforcement officer in 2020 was sentenced on Monday. Kylie Shepherd, 28, was sentenced to five years in the department of corrections. She allegedly crashed her  Pontiac Vibe into a Columbia Police Department cruiser Feb. 24, 2020,
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Deputies have identified a suspect in a shooting early Saturday in southern Boone County.
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A Jefferson City woman is in critical condition after her boyfriend shot her while handling a gun on Sunday afternoon, according to the Cole County Sheriff’s Office.
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This story has been updated. BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Hallsville man was arrested by Boone County Sheriff’s Deputies after a shooting on Friday. Nicholas Dean Brunda, 39, was arrested Friday for shooting at a Columbia residence earlier that day. Brunda is charged with first-degree assault, unlawful use of a weapon, armed criminal action and
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HARTSBURG, Mo. (KMIZ) Boone County Sheriff’s Deputies are investigating after a shooting early Saturday morning left one man hurt. At 2:30 a.m. deputies responded to the 16000 block of South James Sapp Road in Hartsburg. When deputies arrived on scene, they found one man with a gunshot wound and believe he was shot at a
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Editor’s note: This article was updated to more accurately represent the findings of the police investigation. A vigil was held Saturday evening for the two Jefferson City residents killed earlier that day during a fight at J. Pfenny’s Sports Grill and Pub. The Cole County prosecutor charged a Kansas City man
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