Three charged in deadly Columbia shooting to appear in court
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
Three 18-year-olds charged in a deadly shooting in southwest Columbia on Sunday will make their first appearance in a Boone County courtroom Thursday afternoon.
Alexis Baumann, of Hallsville; Kobe Aust and Joseph Crane, both of Columbia; were charged with second-degree murder, armed criminal action and first-degree robbery.
A juvenile is also facing the same charges along with felony theft.
Baumann, Aust and Crane will be in front of Judge Kayla Jackson-Williams at 1 p.m. in the Boone County Courthouse.
Officers responded to a shots fired call in the 1400 block of Ridgemont Ct. around 8:15 p.m. Sunday. When officers arrived, they found Michael Burke, 42, with life-threatening injuries. He later died at the hospital.
Court documents filed in the case say that Baumann and the group arranged to buy a phone from the victim, Michael R. Burke. The group had already met with and stolen from at least two other victims in the two days before the confrontation that led to Burke's death, documents say. Those incidents occurred on Claudell Lane and Northampton Dr.
Baumann told police that the juvenile would set up a meeting with someone through Facebook Marketplace to buy a phone. The group would then steal the phone and sell it for cash at a local ecoATM.
Baumann allegedly told officers that the juvenile and Crane went into Burke's home and minutes later, she heard three gunshots. They then took his iPhone and sold it at an ecoATM at the Walmart on Conley Road.
The juvenile appeared before a Boone County judge on Wednesday for a detention hearing. The state requested that he be kept at the juvenile detention center until an adult certification investigation can be completed. The defense requested in-home detention.
The judge ordered the juvenile to stay in juvenile detention until his next court hearing on Tuesday.
