Charges to be dropped against downtown Columbia shooting suspect

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) -

Prosecutors plan to drop charges against a downtown Columbia shooting suspect in exchange for a guilty plea on a different case.

Todd D. Nesbitt pleaded guilty on Friday in Boone County court to felony resisting arrest. Prosecutors and defense attorney Gerald Mueller said Nesbitt would get sentenced to that on July 25, where prosecutors would drop first-degree assault and armed criminal action charges.

Police arrested Nesbitt in November for his alleged role in a shooting outside Vibez Lounge earlier that morning. Officers claim he tried to escape through his apartment window on East Broadway when police showed up to arrest him for the shooting. Court documents claim Nesbitt and Quillian Jacobs began shooting at each other around 3 a.m. Police shot Jacobs as he ran from the scene firing. Five others were hurt in the shootout.

The resisting arrest charge comes with a maximum of four years in prison. Mueller declined to comment on what he would recommend Judge Kevin Crane sentence him to at the July hearing.

Prosecutors called police's killing of Jacobs justified.