Police respond to shots-fired call in central Columbia

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Columbia police responded to a shots-fired call on Wednesday afternoon in the central part of the city.

Columbia Police Department spokesman Colin Imhoff confirmed the call to ABC 17 News in a text message.

Police were called to the intersection of Allen and Bryant streets in a neighborhood just west of Providence Road. Officers put up crime scene tape on Allen Street, which closed it off from North Garth Avenue.

At least a dozen officers were at the scene.

An ABC 17 News photographer saw someone on a stretcher and CPR being conducted by first responders. A reporter saw 13 evidence markers placed by police.

Because of its proximity, four schools in the Columbia Public Schools district were put on a "secure," where no one can enter or leave the buildings, according to an email from district spokeswoman Michelle Baumstark. Douglass High School and Ridgeway and Grant elementary schools were included in that, though it primarily affected staff since school had been dismissed. Hickman's dismissal was delayed for about three minutes, Baumstark said.

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