Court documents detail charges in Columbia Mall shooting
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
Police investigators said surveillance video shows two men shooting another person outside of the Columbia Mall last week.
The probable cause statements in the cases against Davion Gross and Christopher O. Mullins reveal why Columbia police came to suspect them for the Aug. 11 shooting. One man went to the hospital.
The statements written by Jacob Yarnell said mall security video shows Mullins, Gross and the victim all in the parking lot around 7 p.m. The video shows Gross go behind a red truck in the parking lot outside of Level Up Entertainment before he and Mullins shot, Yarnell said. The pair then got in a Chrysler sedan and drove off.
Police officers found ten shell casings at the scene. A bullet struck the mall building, Yarnell wrote.
The sedan's owner said they gave Mullins the keys to the car, which Yarnell said were attached to a long lanyard. Mullins could be seen with a long lanyard in the video, according to the statement.
Police also found pictures from Mullins' Snapchat account on Aug. 10 and Aug. 11 that CPD said showed both of them with guns.
Yarnell said investigators talked to Gross on the phone on Aug. 13, where he allegedly admitted to being at the mall at the time of the shooting.
"Gross said, 'I was trying to protect my d*** self too,'" Yarnell wrote.
Both are wanted on no-bond warrants for first-degree assault and armed criminal action.
