Police confirm suspects in deadly shooting in custody; Scott Boulevard robbery linked
Matthew Sanders
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
Glasgow Police confirmed all three suspects wanted for a weekend robbery and deadly shooting have been taken into custody as of 2 p.m. Tuesday.
Columbia police said Tuesday that the weekend robbery of a business on Scott Boulevard and the shooting death of a man on East Broadway are linked.
The Columbia Police Department says in a news release that officers were looking for three suspects involved in the incidents. Two of them are teens ages 13 and 15, police say.
Police were looking for 34-year-old Steven Paden.
Steven Paden (Missouri Department of Corrections)
The three were wanted in the shooting death of Zarian Simpson, 18. Police say Simpson died after being shot during a car chase Sunday, and his vehicle crashed into a deck at the Eastgate Apartments at Old 63 and East Broadway.
Police allege Simpson was robbed at gunpoint at Broadway and Eighth Street before the shooting. Simpson chased the suspects after the robbery and was shot, dying at the hospital later, according to police.
Columbia Mayor Barbara Buffaloe shared a Columbia Police Department update on the case on Facebook.
“Sunday night’s incident at Broadway and Old 63 is heartbreaking,” Buffaloe wrote. “As a parent, I felt the weight of it deeply — my own kids were playing just up the hill at the playground that evening.”
Buffaloe wrote that she is working to make people feel safe in “every part of our city — at any time of day.”
A juvenile has been arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder, first-degree robbery, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon.
The three at-large suspects were seen in Glasgow, Missouri, on Monday and Tuesday, police say.
Police say the three suspects were also responsible for robbing a business early Saturday in the 600 block of Scott Boulevard. CPD will not identify the business, a spokesperson said Tuesday.
One suspect was posted at the door as a lookout while another tried to get the clerk to open the safe at gunpoint, CPD says in its release. The clerk could not get the safe open, but the robbers took cash and merchandise, police say.