1 killed in Boone County shooting Saturday, suspect arrested
Marie Moyer
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A woman was killed in Boone County Saturday night in what the Boone County Sheriff’s Office is investigating as a homicide.
Brian Leer with the Boone County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to ABC 17 News Sunday night that a suspect was arrested.
According to a release from the sheriff’s office Sunday night, Isaiah N. Goins, 26, of Columbia, was identified as a possible suspect. The release says Goins was found at a business on Clark Lane around noon Sunday and taken to the sheriff’s office for an interview.
Goins was arrested on charges of first-degree murder, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon. He was not listed on the Boone County Jail roster Sunday night.
According to a previous release, at around 11:35 p.m. Saturday, a sergeant was approached by a citizen reporting that they had seen a vehicle crashed into a home in the 2400 block of north Lake of the Woods Road. Upon approaching the vehicle, the sergeant found a 43-year-old Columbia resident shot and killed in the driver’s seat of the vehicle.
This marks the third homicide reported in Boone County so far in 2025. For comparison, there were only two homicides recorded in all of 2024, one in February and another in June.
The current count puts the county on par with 2023, when three homicides were reported throughout the year. According to Missouri State Highway Patrol crime reports, the highest number of homicides in the past five years occurred in 2021, with six recorded that year.