Columbia shooting charges allege suspect fired on car with 3 people
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A man suspected in a Columbia shooting that left two people injured opened fire on a vehicle carrying three people, according to court documents.
Ammanuel A. Minuye, 23, was arrested Thursday and charged with first-degree assault, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon in the northeast Columbia shooting.
Officers were called at about 7 p.m. Thursday to the 4500 block of Alan Lane. Officers found a victim in the 3900 block of Clark Lane and another in the 1700 block of North Ballenger Lane, according to the Columbia Police Department. The victim on Clark Lane had minor injuries, but the Ballenger Lane victim's wounds were life-threatening, CPD says.
One of the victims, according to a probable cause statement, was with Minuye when the group in the car fired back at him.
The statement says Minuye and two other people approached a car that was sitting on Alan Lane, and that one person in Minuye's group opened fire, according to the people in the car. The people in the car fired back, hitting a person who was with Minuye, the statement says. That person was found with a gunshot wound on Ballenger Lane.
The people in the car drove to a nearby Casey's, where police found one gunshot victim.
Minuye told police that only one other person was with him that night, but security video shows he was with two people, the statement says.
Both victims were stable at a local hospital Friday morning, police say. Minuye was in the Boone County Jail on no bond on Friday. An initial hearing was set for Friday afternoon.
