Former MU student gets 10 years in residence hall strangling case

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A former University of Missouri student who was accused of strangling a victim at a residence hall last year has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Maxwell Warren, 19, of Overland Park, Kansas, pleaded guilty on Friday to two counts of second-degree domestic assault and one count of fourth-degree domestic assault. He is currently being held at the Boone County Jail.

He was originally charged with first-degree burglary, second-degree domestic assault, first-degree domestic assault and misdemeanor fourth-degree assault.

He pleaded guilty to strangling the victim in their dorm room in September after they had blocked him on Snapchat. He had also allegedly assaulted the victim in October 2025. A witness also reported seeing Warren assaulting a woman near the parking garage on Virginia Avenue.

Warren was subsequently banned from campus after he was charged in November.

Warren had prior criminal charges in Kansas as a juvenile, which included making a criminal threat and violating an order of protection.