COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged with two felonies after authorities after he allegedly strangled someone multiple times during an assault on Dec. 20. Datroyt Williams, 32, was charged on Monday in Boone County with second-degree domestic assault and second-degree kidnapping. A warrant was ordered and no bond was set. The probable cause
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A student from State Technical College was charged after he allegedly threatened employees at a Mexican restaurant while posing as a border patrol agent. Coby Williams, 20, of Linn, was charged on Monday in Osage County with first-degree making a terroristic threat, first-degree harassment and misdemeanor impersonating a law enforcement officer. He
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County Judge heard arguments on whether a Columbia dog breeder who pleaded not guilty to 29 felony counts of animal abuse should be granted a lower bond and a change of venue. Twenty-six-year-old Melissa Sanders was arrested in November after law enforcement found several dead dogs and remains at her
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Harry Adrian IV is no longer working for MoDOT. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The former state safety coordinator for the Missouri Department of Transportation, who was accused of pulling out a gun during a road-rage incident in September, pleaded guilty Tuesday in an agreement with the state. Harry Adrian IV, of Tuscumbia, pleaded guilty
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control is investigating after a man died while in the custody of the patrol. Troop A posted on social media that a man died after being taken in custody by troopers in Johnson County. The release states that around 6:30 p.m. on
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Sheridan Beardshear was closing her store on the west side of Columbia as usual around 7 p.m. Saturday night. She did the normal closing procedures in the back of the store, when she heard what she originally believed was a car backfiring. She walked outside of the store and was greeted by
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Gov. Mike Kehoe met with Columbia officials on Monday to discuss public safety in the city. Columbia Mayor Barbara Buffaloe, City Manager De’Carlon Seewood, and Police Chief Jill Schlude were among those in attendance for the meeting at the governor’s office in the Capitol. According to Kehoe’s office, the meeting had been
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man was charged Monday with involuntary manslaughter on accusations that he had a seizure while driving after not taking his medicine, killing a nursing home resident. Deshawn M. Robinson, 57, was charged with first-degree involuntary manslaughter and driving without a license on New Year’s Day. He was listed
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Boone County Prosecutor’s Office has charged a man with murder after a shooting that killed one person and left two seriously injured on Clark Lane in Columbia Sunday night. Columbia police said Monday that one of the victims in the shooting, Brianna Hawkins, 21, of Fulton, died at a nearby hospital
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Three people were shot on Clark Lane at the Greens apartment complex on Sunday night, according to Columbia Police Chief Jill Schlude. According to Schlude, police received reports of a shooting in the 4800 block of Clark lane shortly after 9 p.m. Police found three people who had been shot on scene.
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 17-year-old Columbia teen was arrested for firing shots and a carjacking in the Shoppes at Stadium area Saturday night, according to a press release from the Columbia Police Department. CPD spokesman Colin Imhoff said officers were called to the area just after 7 p.m. for reports of an active assailant and
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The Columbia Police Department is hitting some installation delays with Flock cameras more than a year after the technology was approval by the city council in 2024.
101 of 118 camera locations have been installed, according to CPD Assistant Chief Lance Bolinger.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The family of a woman charged with felony murder for the 2021 death of an 8-month-old girl maintains she is innocent. Columbia police arrested Jennifer Johnson in April 2021, after being called to a home in the 1000 block of Elleta Boulevard in north Columbia. She is charged with felony murder in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 20-year-old man died, and an 18-year-old man was flown to University Hospital in Columbia after a New Year’s Eve shooting in Miller County. The shooting was reported at a New Year’s Eve party on Wednesday in the 1700 block of Highway 42 near Brumley, the Miller County Sheriff’s Office said in
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man was charged with several felonies after he allegedly fired multiple shots at two people from a vehicle on New Year’s Eve. Gayron Serrano Abrego, 22, was charged with four counts of first-degree assault, one count of armed criminal action, unlawful use of a weapon and a pair of counts of
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A 19-year-old man from northeast Missouri was charged this week with driving drunk in a crash that killed an unborn child. Hayden J. Wilson of Edina, Missouri, was charged Monday with DWI causing death and two counts of DWI causing serious physical injuries. All three charges are felonies. Investigators say Wilson was
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Data from the Missouri State Highway Patrol shows violent crime–including murder, aggravated assault, robbery and rape — in Columbia is down 6.29% in 2025 from the previous year. Crime in Columbia has been under watch after a Stephen’s College student was shot and killed on East Broadway in September. Since that incident,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Fulton man has been accused of a pair of child sex crimes after authorities claim he sexually abused a child in 2005. Thomas Harris, 48, was charged on Wednesday in Callaway County with second-degree statutory rape and second-degree statutory sodomy. He is being held at the Callaway County Jail without bond.
Continue Reading COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia dog breeder who was charged with 29 felony counts of animal abuse has asked a judge to reduce her bond and to change the venue of her case. Melissa Sanders, 26, has been held at the Phelps County Jail though she is listed on Boone County’s online jail roster. She
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman was charged on Wednesday in Callaway County with a pair of child sex crimes. Christina Barham, 57, of Fulton, was charged with sex abuse of a child younger than 14 years old and first-degree child molestation. She is being held at the Callaway County Jail without bond. A mugshot was
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