COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Missouri Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence reports an average of more than 200 calls were answered per day by the National Domestic Violence Hotline across the Show-Me-State in 2025. In the Central Region alone, MCADSV reports hotline calls went up 15% from 2024. The region includes much of Mid-Missouri’s counties
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Police say a 15-year-old boy is the suspect in a shooting that left another youth with critical injuries Tuesday. Columbia Police Department officers responded to a shots-fired call on Tuesday in the 5700 block of Canaveral Drive. According to a news release, officers responded to the call around 5:16 p.m. Officers
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Columbia Police Department taped off a street on Tuesday in a neighborhood just south of Interstate 70 near St. Charles Road. CPD wrote on its social media at 5:52 p.m. that it was investigating a shots-fired call in the 5700 block of Canaveral Drive. Police wrote on social media at 9:18
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Mexico, Missouri, man says he has no regrets after being arrested while protesting Columbia’s Flock cameras. Dominic O’Connor, a tattoo artist who lives in Mexico and works at Electric Peacock Tattoos in Columbia, said he spent two days protesting the city’s use of the automated license plate reader cameras before he
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A jury trial for a Callaway County man accused of killing his wife in 2002 has been given a new trial date. Harold Dickens, of Auxvasse, is charged in Callaway County with first-degree murder in the death of Debra Dickens. Court documents allege he stabbed Debra Dickens on or around April 28,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Residents at a Columbia apartment complex at the center of an invasion of privacy lawsuit claim they were never notified about the employee it is centered around. A “Jane Doe” filed the lawsuit in Boone County on Monday against Country Club Apartments and employee Juan Carlos Vazquez Martinez. The woman accuses the
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A woman sued a Columbia apartment complex on Monday after she claims a maintenance worker rummaged through her dirty clothes hamper and sniffed her underwear. A “Jane Doe” filed the lawsuit in Boone County on Monday against Country Club Apartments and employee Juan Carlos Vazquez Martinez. The woman accuses the apartment and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) University of Missouri President Mun Choi and Provost Matthew Martens warned students to stay away from an area of downtown at night in an email sent to students on the first day of classes. “Incidents downtown typically occur between midnight and 3 a.m.; make sure you’re home safely before then,” the officials
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A former substitute teacher from the state of California who tried to get children from Callaway County to send him nude photographs had his case moved to Boone County on Monday. Matthew Bowman is charged with two counts of child enticement and two counts of misrepresenting his age to entice a minor
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was charged in Cooper County with a felony and a misdemeanor after he allegedly pointed a loaded gun at a teenager during a road-rage incident Saturday night on Interstate 70. Jalin Crenshaw was charged with unlawful use of a weapon and misdemeanor fourth-degree assault. He was not listed on
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MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ The victim of a deadly Sunday night shooting in Moberly has been identified as a 57-year-old woman. Family members told ABC 17 News that Cheryl Gravitt, 57, was the victim of the weekend shooting. Moberly Police confirmed her identity Monday afternoon. An ABC 17 News reporter spoke with multiple family members Monday
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who faked his own death in 2010 was indicted in Boone County on Friday for alleged armed robberies that occurred that same year. Diego Antonio Camargo-Wasserman, 34, formerly of Columbia, is charged with two counts of first-degree robbery and one count of second-degree burglary. He is being held in federal
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man who was accused of leaving his roommate’s body in an apartment for weeks was indicted by a Boone County grand jury on Friday. Ira C. Baldwin is charged with abandoning a corpse. He posted a $1,500 bond on March 26. An arraignment for the charge is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Monday,
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Police had a the intersection of 10th and Cherry Street outside of Harpos Bar temporarily blocked off Sunday night in a massive police presence. A witness told an ABC 17 News reporter that a younger man was sitting on the railing of the rooftop bar when he leaned back and fell
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MOBERLY, Mo. (KMIZ) An investigation is underway by the Moberly Police Department into a Sunday night shooting. A post to the departments social media said the incident occured in the 500 block of Morehead street. A neighbor on scene told ABC 17 News crews that the shooting started allegedly as a disturbance between two women.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) One juvenile was found with gunshot wounds in west Columbia early Saturday morning. According to a new release from the Columbia Police Department, officers were called shortly before 4 a.m. to the 100 block of Redwood Road for reports of shots fired. A male was found with non-life-threatening injuries and taken to
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A candlelight vigil was held Friday night for a 47-year-old Columbia man who was killed in a vehicle and pedestrian collision on Aug. 14. Mark Hunter Jr. was killed after being struck by a vehicle near East St. Charles Road and Remm Drive at about 9:09 p.m. He was taken to a
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HUNTSVILLE, Mo. (KMIZ) A man convicted of murdering a woman outside of his home in Moberly was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday. David “Kip” Heyde, 69, of Moberly, was found guilty on June 26 of second-degree murder in the shooting death of Bailey Scott. Heyde appeared in Randolph County Circuit Court at 1 p.m. Friday
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) An Illinois man was charged Friday with first-degree assault, armed criminal action and armed robbery after a shirtless, bleeding man was found in rural Boone County. Boone County sheriff’s deputies arrested 56-year-old Martin Paddie Jr. of Rockford, Illinois, early Thursday. He was charged Friday on suspicion of first-degree assault, first-degree robbery and
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A murder case surrounding a murder case dating back to 1991 has gone through another round of dismissal and a demand for reinstatement from the Attorney General’s office. Judge Emily Fretwell had dismissed charges against William “Chris” Niemet on Aug. 11 and again was ordered to vacate that order on Thursday. The
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