19-year-old placed on probation for role in Columbia homicide

A Boone County judge sentenced a Columbia man to 5 years probation Tuesday for his involvement in a 2016 homicide.

Jadarius Sanders pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of hindering prosecution in connection to the shooting death of 17-year-old Marquez Reed on July 27 near Allen Street and LaSalle place in central Columbia.

According to the court documents, a witness saw Reed walk up to a car and have an argument with a passenger shortly before being fatally shot. The documents claim Sanders admitted to being the driver of that car, and said a passenger in the car shot Reed.

Sanders then admitted to driving to a home on West Bethany Drive so that another person in the car could hide the gun used to shoot Reed.

The shooter was later identified as then 18-year-old Tyrone James Jr. He was sentenced in March to 10 years in prison on involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action charges.