COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) UPDATE: Columbia Police arrested 27-year-old Kendell Damar Harris, of Columbia, for armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon. According to a press release, Harris has been booked into the Boone County Jail. CPD responded to the area of the 900 block of East Business Loop 70 on Saturday at 12:15
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Jefferson City man is charged with a June 4 shooting. Leandre Williams is being held in the Cole County Jail for armed criminal action, unlawful use of a weapon and felon in possession of a gun. Court documents say officers saw him leaving the scene of a shooting near east
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The Boone County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of 19-year-old Columbia resident Dennis. C Darks.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Boone County judge won’t let the attorney for Lynlee Renick to question a Boone County prosecutor handling the case of a key witness. Judge Kevin Crane denied the request to interview a Boone County assistant prosecutor about any potential deals made between it and Brandon Blackwell. Crane said Renick’s attorney, Tim
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Public Schools has lost three of its own within the last week after the deaths of an elementary school teacher, a student of Rock Bridge High School, and a recent 2020 graduate of Battle High School. Early Friday morning, the Boone County Sheriff’s Office confirmed a homicide in the 4300 block
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — The former city clerk for a small town in northeast Missouri has pleaded guilty to federal charges for defrauding the town out of $317,000. Federal prosecutors in St. Louis announced Friday that 48-year-old Tracey Ray admitted to wire fraud and federal program theft. Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 17. Ray was
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A man is in custody after law enforcement found drugs, money and a gun while serving a search warrant.
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At 2:37 a.m., the Jefferson City Communications Center received a shots fired call in the area of E. McCarty and Lafayette Streets.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Another woman is accusing a Columbia man of attempting to take a photo up her dress. Ronald Dameron is now facing three counts of invasion of privacy. Court documents say the alleged victim came forward after seeing news coverage of a previous arrest for the same crime. She says he followed her
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A new judge will take over a case against a Columbia man accused in a 2017 killing. 28-year-old Jeffrey McWilliams is charged with second-degree murder, robbery and armed criminal action in the death of Augustus Roberts. Roberts died at a home off Lasso Circle in December 2017. Judge Josh Devine will now
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia police need your help in identifying two suspects in a fraud investigation. Columbia police tweeted out a photo of the suspects from surveillance footage. Courtesy Columbia police Police say the fraud happened on April 15th in two separate stores on the 400 block of Conley road. Anyone with information is asked
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BOONE COUNTY, Mo. (KMIZ) Deputies are working to return stolen property found Wednesday night. According to a Facebook post from the Boone County Sheriff’s Office, deputies found what appeared to be a temporary storage place for stolen items in the 6000 block of Creasy Springs Road. Deputies found two stolen cargo trailers and a boat
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PILOT GROVE, Mo, (KMIZ). The Cooper County Sheriff’s Office confirmed it was helping investigate a bank robbery at Alliant Bank in Pilot Grove. The sheriff’s office is assisting Pilot Grove police with the investigation. At least two sheriff’s office patrol cars and one police car responded to the scene. The FBI has released new information
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SEDALIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Pettis County prosecutors have charged a man for allegedly displaying a gun at a Monday shooting in Sedalia. Prosecutors charged Jesse Rubio with unlawful use of a weapon on Wednesday, a class E felony. Sedalia police said witnesses accused of Rubio of pulling a gun out of his waistband while in his
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) A Cole County grand jury has indicted a man on new gun charges in an early May shooting. Semaj Harris is accused of murder in a Jefferson City. Semaj Harris was charged with aiding a shooting from a vehicle and illegal gun possession in a May 5 shots-fired incident at Community
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled that a $3 court fee to pay for sheriffs’ retirement is unconstitutional. Judges on Tuesday ruled that the sheriffs’ retirement fund is not related to the administration of justice, meaning those fees are not allowed. The case at hand deals with two drivers who
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) The Jefferson City Police department is investigating a burglary and property destruction at the Christian Fellowship Church at 1905 St. Mary’s Blvd. According to police, the suspect lit a cross on fire inside the church Monday night. JCPD is looking for the suspect in the photo. Anyone with information is asked
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One person is still in custody on unrelated charges following a shooting that killed one at Lazy Gators late Saturday night.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) UPDATE: The Sheriff’s Office says they are looking for one suspect from a car chase with police early Wednesday morning. The Sheriff’s Office says three individuals were taken into custody and this includes the driver of the vehicle. All three individuals currently in custody are 14-years-old. Their names will not be released
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Gregory Garner of Columbia is accused of domestic assault after allegedly hitting a woman 20 to 30 times Friday at Extended Stay America in Columbia. Officials were first dispatched to a call at on West Business Loop 70 Friday. According to court documents, when officials went into Garner’s room they saw a
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