CORRECTION: Charges requested for armed Boone County incident
Charges against a Jefferson City man have been requested in Boone County for an armed incident that happened just before a shooting last month.
The prosecutor’s office requested charges against Marques Thorpe, 22, for unlawful use of a weapon. Thorpe allegedly threatened a man with a gun just east of Columbia on June 18 on Demaret Drive. As of Friday afternoon, a judge had not approved the arrest warrant for Thorpe.
Boone County sheriff’s deputies and CPD officers later that night went to a shooting at Kwik BP, near Demaret Drive. Two female victims were shot and treated for their injuries at a local hospital.
A witness took pictures during the incident, and police were able to identify the suspect’s vehicle. Police found out that it was registered to Alyssia Thorpe, the sister of Marques Thorpe.
During the same night, an armed robbery happened on 718 Demaret Drive. Witnesses saw three black men approach another black man and white woman who were sitting in a vehicle. One of the men that approached the vehicle hit the man that was sitting in the vehicle.
On June 22, a detective met with the man who was hit while sitting in the vehicle on Demaret Drive. He said that he was there to purchase marijuana from Alyssia Thorpe, and that’s when the incident occurred. The woman that was sitting in the vehicle with the man that was hit told detectives that one of the men that approached them had a gun. She told the detective that she feared for her safety, the man’s safety and a child’s safety that was in the vehicle with them. She was also identified as one of the shooting victims from the Kwik BP.
On June 28, the woman who was in the vehicle on Demaret Drive and the shooting victim from the Kwik BP said that the man with the gun was wearing a gray shirt with an orange emblem. On July 1, a detective looked at video from the Fastlane convenience Store at 602 East Broadway in Ashland, where Alyssia and Marques Thorpe and others stopped after the shooting at the Kwik BP. Marques Thorpe could be seen wearing a gray shirt with an orange emblem.
(Editor’s note, 7/7, 4:35 p.m.: The story and headline has been corrected to reflect the current case status. An earlier version of the story said Thorpe had been arrested.)
