Man wanted in Mexico shooting turns himself in

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A man accused in a shooting in Mexico, Missouri, turned himself into the Audrain County Sheriff’s Office on Monday, according to a press release from the Mexico Department of Public Safety.

Police wrote that Branden Truss, 28, of Mexico, Missouri, turned himself in at 6:15 p.m. Monday following a search. He is charged with first-degree assault, two counts of unlawful use of a weapon and one count of armed criminal action.

He is being held without bond. A confined docket hearing was held on Tuesday and Truss appeared by video from the jail. A bond review is scheduled for 10 a.m. Thursday.

Monterio Truss, 25, of Mexico, Missouri, was also charged with first-degree assault, two counts of unlawful use of a weapon and one count of armed criminal action. He is also being held at the jail without bond. He had a hearing on Tuesday and appeared by video from the jail. A bond review is scheduled for 10 a.m. Thursday.

According to a press release from the safety department and court documents, police were called to a residence in Mexico at 9:47 p.m. Saturday in the 200 block of South Alabama Street and found a 46-year-old man with two gunshots wounds.

The probable cause statement says a woman said a white Lincoln had been following her vehicle and that the Truss’s walked up to her vehicle with guns and demanded money. The woman sped away, the statement says.

Court documents claim that both men were at the woman’s residence when she arrived while they were talking to the victim, the statement says. Branden Truss allegedly fired two shots from the Lincoln and hit the man, the statement says

Deputies stopped the vehicle later and arrested Monterio Truss, while Branded Truss ran away from the scene, the statement says.