Multiple Mid-Missouri cases headed to court Monday
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
Judges are set to hear multiple Mid-Missouri cases in court Monday.
Emma Adams, Ja'shaun Barney, Amy Murray, and James Matt are all scheduled to appear in court, according to online court records.
Emma Adams is scheduled to appear in the Boone County Courthouse on Monday at 1:30 p.m. for her alleged role in the death of Samuel Clemons. The 21-year-old is charged with second-degree murder, armed criminal action, tampering with evidence and abandoning a corpse.
Clemons was a University of Missouri student at the time of his death. Adams was arrested and charged in January after an investigation that started at the University of Missouri and led to police finding a burning body in a residential area far from campus.
Adam's lawyer is asking to have her committed to a mental health facility, the request comes after a judge denied her private doctor's report on the issue earlier this year. The judge in her case ordered the state evaluation in June, and it was completed last week.
Ja'shuan Barney has an arraignment scheduled at the Boone County Courthouse on Monday at 8:30 a.m. for his alleged role in the death of 33-year-old Deshon Joseph Houston. The 18-year-old is charged with second-degree murder, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon.
Houston was found dead outside of a home in the 3200 block of Dove Drive on June 26. Police previously arrested Jajuan Crockett, 22; Damarkus Williams, 18; and Bryton Allen, 20, all of Columbia, in connection with the homicide investigation. All three were charged with second-degree murder, unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal action and are being held at the Boone County Jail without bond.
Barney is being held in the Boone County Jail without bond.
Amy Murray is scheduled to appear in person at the Cole County Courthouse on Monday at 9:30 a.m. after she was accused of having sexual relations with an inmate at the Jefferson City Correction Center.
Amy Murray is charged with first-degree sexual abuse and three counts of offender abuse. Court documents say Murray started having sexual relations with inmate Eugene Claypool in Sept. of 2018 three times.
She was working as a nurse in the transitional care unit at the facility, and her last day at the center was Oct. 8, 2018.
James Mast is scheduled to appear in court at the Benton County Circuit Court on Monday at 10:00 a.m. for his alleged role in the death of his 4-year-old daughter.
Mast is one of four people accused of having a role in the death of his daughter, Jessica Mast and abuse of his younger son. The Benton County Sheriff's Office said in December that James Mast called them after finding his daughter dead in her room in rural Cole Camp. Deputies claim James and Mary Mast, are parents to the girl, stood by and sometimes participated in the abuse while neighbors Ethan Mast and Kourtney Aumen abused the family for weeks.
Mast is charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
