Charges filed on man at center of Thursday’s police response at south Columbia apartment building
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A Columbia man who was arrested in relation to a large police response that occurred Thursday at Forest Village Apartments has been charged.
Ramelus Bradley, 19, was charged in Boone County on Friday with unlawful use of a weapon, third-degree domestic assault and misdemeanor fourth-degree domestic assault. He is being held at the Boone County Jail without bond.
According to the probable cause statement filed by the Columbia Police Department, the victim called dispatchers saying that Bradley was outside her residence with a gun. She called using a friend’s phone and claimed that Bradley took her phone and tried to steal her vehicle, the statement says.
Bradley was allegedly upset with what he saw on the victim’s phone and pushed her into a closet, court documents say. Her 2-year-old son was in the apartment at the time, court documents say.
Bradley allegedly ran out of the apartment to get the vehicle, but the victim jumped on the roof of the vehicle so he wouldn’t leave, the statement says. Bradley allegedly pulled the woman off the vehicle and then she got into the vehicle’s backseat, the statement says.
The statement then says Bradley drove to a parking lot near Mizzou Arena, threatened the woman with a gun and choked her. Bradley then allegedly drove the woman back to the apartment and told her to get her son because he was going to leave, court documents allege. A probable cause statement filed by MUPD says that Bradley allegedly threatened to kill the victim.
The woman got on top of the vehicle again and was able to get into the driver’s seat, the statement says. When the woman drove away, she saw Bradley holding a key and her cellphone, court docs say.
Bradley allegedly told police later that he pushed the victim on the bed and the grabbed her arms and moved her into a closet after she fought back, the statement says. Bradley also allegedly denied pulling out a gun and strangling the victim. MUPD wrote that they did not “observe injuries to the victim’s neck.”
The statement says that Bradley left the area prior to police arriving. However, police were on the scene for several hours and ABC 17 News reporters heard police calling out his name and telling him to come out of the apartment.
A press release from the Columbia Police Department says that Bradley was arrested in the 2500 block of Quail Drive. Jail records indicate that he booked into the jail at 2:17 a.m. Friday.
