Murder charges filed in Boone County teen’s May shooting death
Matthew Sanders
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A Columbia teen has been charged with murder for a May deadly shooting just outside the city limits.
Anthony K. Marine, 17, was charged Thursday with second-degree murder, two counts of armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon in the death of a person identified in a probable cause statement by the initials Z.N.
Marine, who was a minor at the time of the shooting, admitted to a detective that he and his friends had gathered to watch a fight when he shot Z.N. in the chest, then ran from the scene, according to a probable cause statement. Marine allegedly said he hid the gun.
The Boone County Sheriff’s Office said at the time of the shooting that a 16-year-old had been detained.
The teen suspect and the victim were part of groups that had met up for two youths to fight that evening in the 1300 block of North Frideriki Drive, according to a Boone County Sheriff’s Office news release. An 18-year-old man was found unresponsive and not breathing outside a home with a gunshot wound and died at the scene.
The sheriff’s office says a video also put Marine at the scene, firing a shot at Z.N. and running away.
Marine was in the Boone County Jail on Thursday evening with no bond.