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Police arrest three in connection with Sunday morning shots fired in west Columbia

Eddie Luster, left and Leland Paris
Boone County Jail
Eddie Luster, left and Leland Paris

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Columbia police have arrested three people in connection with a fight and gunfire Sunday morning.

The department posted on Facebook that Eddie Luster, 21, and Leland Paris, 26, had each been arrested on suspicion of first-degree assault, unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal action for the incident in the 1000 block of Claudell Lane. Zahniya Crawford, 23, was also arrested for third-degree domestic assault and armed criminal action.

Crawford's photo was not available on the Boone County Sheriff's Office website.

Prosecutors filed charges against Crawford on Monday morning for domestic assault and armed criminal action. A probable cause statement in Crawford's case accuses her of attacking two people on Sunday just before 9 a.m. One of the victims allegedly told police that Crawford attacked him with an extension cord "because he was seeing" another person. Police said surveillance footage also showed Crawford attacking the victim with the cord.

Crawford allegedly told police she hit the victim with an extension cord, and that she "blacked out." She is being held on a $30,000 bond.

Charges had not been filed against Luster or Paris as of Monday morning.

Police were active on Claudell Lane all weekend. Officers had returned to the scene on Sunday night to serve a warrant. Police were in the nearby 700 block of Claudell Lane on Saturday night to help locate a 9-month-old child who went missing earlier that afternoon, which led to one arrest.

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