COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Charges were filed on Tuesday for a woman accused in a shooting in the parking lot of the Conley Road Walmart in east Columbia on Friday. Whitney Eliesh Nevels-McKee, 35, of Columbia, was charged with second-degree kidnapping, two counts of second-degree assault, two counts of carjacking, two counts of armed criminal action,
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Prosecutors charged a Columbia woman and man Tuesday with three felonies including murder for their alleged roles in a shootout that ended with one man dead.
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MILLER COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) A St. Louis woman was charged after she was accused of hitting a victim on a motorcycle while she was driving drunk on Monday. Nicole Mullins, 34, was charged in Miller County with DWI causing serious physical injury, leaving the scene of an accident and failure to drive on the right
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A felony charge against a former University of Missouri fraternity member accused in the hazing of Danny Santulli has been dismissed without prejudice, according to an email from Boone County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Nicholas Komoroski. Benjamin Parres, of Chesterfield, was charged with felony hazing. Komoroski stated that Parres entered a deferral agreement,
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who was employed as a CNA at a Jefferson City assisted-living facility is accused of raping an 81-year-old woman with dementia. Joseph Hull, of Jefferson City, was charged with first-degree rape and first-degree sexual conduct with a nursing facility resident. He is being held at the Cole County Jail
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Columbia police on Tuesday identified two bodies found about a week ago inside a home.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Several Mid-Missouri law enforcement agencies in the past 10 days have warned residents about a scam that impersonates their deputies or each sheriff’s office. The Randolph County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a Monday social media post that it had received reports of someone claiming to be Deputy John Clark was calling people
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Shots were heard again on Rice Road on Monday afternoon at 4:35 p.m. While reporting on the shooting scene that occurred on Sunday evening, an ABC 17 News reporter heard seven to nine gunshots ring out from the 4600 block of Rice Road. The reporter saw two males run from Rice Road
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Columbia Police confirmed Monday morning one man died after being shot on Rice Road Sunday night.
Continue Reading Columbia police identified the woman officers arrested Friday after shots were fired in the parking lot of the Walmart on Conley Road.
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Multiple police and fire units were parked outside a Columbia Walmart store Friday evening.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The “pledge dad” at a University of Missouri fraternity who pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors in the hazing of Danny Santulli was sentenced to six months in jail and six months on house arrest on Friday. Ryan Delanty, 22, of Ballwin, pleaded guilty on May 10 to hazing and suppling alcohol to
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A Columbia man was charged Friday with two counts of murder in the investigation into two missing Columbia women.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) Two men were charged in Cole County after allegedly brandishing guns at another person during a road rage incident on Thursday. Robert M. Matthews, 41, of Jefferson City, was charged on Friday with second-degree assault, illegal gun possession, unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal action. Michael John Skyler Libbert,
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MEXICO, Mo. (KMIZ) A Mexico, Missouri, man was charged with several child sex crimes on Thursday. Rodney Joe Botz, born in 1962, was charged with two counts of first-degree sexual abuse and two counts of fourth-degree child molestation. He is being held at the Audrain County Jail without bond. A confined docket hearing is scheduled
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ABC 17 News obtained bodycam footage that showed a Sturgeon police officer shoot and kill a 13-pound dog on Sunday.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A man who is now being referred to as a suspect in a homicide investigation was arrested, the Columbia Police Department confirmed in a Thursday evening press release Randall Fox, 51, was previously referred to as a “person of interest” in a missing persons investigation. Fox was arrested on suspicion of second-degree
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A second man has been charged in an alleged armed robbery that occurred on May 6 in the 500 block of Elm Street in Jefferson City. Keon Hall was charged with first-degree accessory to robbery, accessory to first-degree assault and accessory to armed criminal action. He was arrested on Thursday and
Continue Reading Viewer discretion is advised for the full-length video. STURGEON, Mo. (KMIZ) Bodycam footage shows the interaction a Sturgeon police officer had with a 13-pound, blind-and-deaf Shih Tzu before he shot the dog to death. ABC 17 News requested bodycam footage from the city of Sturgeon for an Officer Woodson on Tuesday morning and received the
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HERMANN, Mo. (KMIZ) The Human Society of Missouri’s Animal Cruelty Task Force and the Gasconade County Sheriff’s Office rescued 22 dogs from an unlicensed breeder, according to a Humane Society press release and sheriff’s office Facebook post. There were 22 dogs rescued from the property and taken to the Humane Society’s Macklind headquarters in St.
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