Month: September 2026

Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Fitzgibbon Hospital in Marshall announced in a Friday social media post that it will stop having inpatient labor and delivery services on Sept. 30.

The hospital wrote that its women’s care clinic will stay open.

“The inpatient Labor and Delivery unit has experienced ongoing financial losses for several years,” the social media post says.  Following a thorough review of the unit’s performance given the resources required to sustain inpatient obstetrical services, it was determined that continuing the service in its current form was not financially sustainable.”

This comes after American Medical Administrators took over its hospital operations earlier this month after a buyer for the hospital backed out of its deal.

“Expectant mothers currently receiving prenatal care at Marshall Women’s Care will continue to receive support from their current clinical care team,” the post says. “Marshall Women’s Care will work directly with patients to assist with delivery planning and transition of care, including referrals to surrounding healthcare facilities as arrangements are finalized.”

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Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Monroe County announced on Thursday that it will hold an informational meeting about how the department uses Flock cameras, according to a social media post from the county’s sheriff’s office.

The meeting will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, Oct. 5 at the county’s courthouse. The sheriff’s office wrote that a representative from Flock will be at the meeting.

“The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office has always worked to be transparent with the citizens we serve. We believe the public should have an opportunity to understand how these systems work, know how they are used, and to ask questions about them,” the sheriff’s office wrote.

This comes as communities around the country have been rethinking their contracts with Flock with concerns over privacy and its use by law enforcement officers has come under fire.

Gov. Mike Kehoe last week signed an executive order that puts limits on the use of video obtained from Flock cameras.

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Olivia Hayes

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Nearly eight years after the January 2019 death of Dominick Roland, Columbia Police have persons of interest in the case, but are yet to arrest anyone.

Witnesses described to police a dispute that night between a man in the car with Roland and another man just before the drive-by shooting that killed Roland.

Roland was found in a crashed car with a gunshot wound near a gas station in the 3800 block of Range Line Street around 2:55 a.m. Jan. 26, 2019. He was being taken to a hospital in a private vehicle by his twin brother, Darius, when the crash happened.

CPD criminal investigator Lt. Matt Gremore says there’s still not enough evidence to support formal charges that would hold up in court.

“There’s a big difference between I heard this, and I know this, and because of that, we kind of get stuck in cases to where we’re not able to close it. But we hear the same rumors that the community is hearing,” Gremore said. “Because they’re just rumors at that point and they’re not factual things that we can put on paper to a probable cause statement, that’s where it hurts us.”

The events that ended with the crash on Range Line began earlier in the evening in central Columbia, according to records obtained by ABC 17 News. 

Based on statements provided to police, it is believed that Roland was with a group of three friends and his brother earlier in the evening on Jan. 25.

In an interview with ABC 17 News after Dominick Roland’s death in 2019, his mother, Michelle Roland, described her son as loyal.

“Unfortunately, that has been the story of my son’s life because he is loyal to a fault,” she said. “He has always been with the wrong people at the wrong time.”

Records show the group met up between 11:30 p.m. and midnight to bar hop.

One witness told investigators the group would later drop off Roland’s brother, Darius, at his home on Raleigh Drive between 1:30 a.m. and 1:40 a.m. and that Dominick went back out with the rest of the group.

Dominick Roland was sitting in the back passenger seat. One of the men in the car told police they went east on Brown School Road toward Highway 63. He said that it was just a few minutes after leaving the Roland home when another car pulled up and started shooting as they approached the intersection with Derby Ridge Drive.

Numerous witness accounts noted a dark-colored or gray car, but Gremore would not confirm if police had identified a car of interest from that description.

“I can’t tell you yes or no, that is the car. What I hope is that someone sees this and comes forward with more information to corroborate things that we might already know,” Gremore said.

After the shooting, the group realized Dominick Roland was bleeding and took him back to his home on Raleigh Drive. It was there that they moved him into the family van with his brother driving.

Darius Roland crashed the car on the way to the hospital after he saw his brother become unresponsive.

“He was not talking, things didn’t look good,” Gremore said. “Obviously we didn’t know the extent of how bad things were until he goes to the hospital.”

The car wreck occurred at 2:55 a.m., and neighbors told police they heard shots fired at 2:39 a.m., leaving about an hour between the time Darius Roland was dropped off at home and when police found Dominick Roland shot in the car.

Police canvassed Raleigh Drive around 3:30 a.m., and during their investigation officers found blood on the road and the curb, believed to be from when the group moved Dominick Roland.

Around 10 a.m., officers found four guns in the back seat of a white Chevy pickup truck while searching the Roland home. One of the guns had Dominick’s blood on it.

On Jan. 29, arrest warrants for weapons charges were issued for Laron Nesbitt and Jamaal Radcliffe –two men out with Roland the night he died —  related to the guns found in the truck. Those charges were later dropped.

Nesbitt is serving 17 years in prison after pleading guilty in April 2020 to the shooting of 20-year-old Deonte Gainwell. Gainwell was found dead from gunshot wounds early Jan. 17 in the 3700 block of Weymeyer Drive.

A jailhouse informant told police that Nesbitt had confided in him about an ongoing argument between him and another man in the hours leading up to Dominick Roland’s shooting. Nesbitt and the other person were allegedly arguing that night after running into each other at a club called Vibez in downtown Columbia.

The informant told police that Nesbitt said he believed the person he was arguing with that night was the shooter. However, Nesbitt allegedly said the car the shots came from was different from the car he saw the man in earlier that night.

When asked by police if he or anyone in the group had any ongoing disagreements that night that could have motivated the shooting, Nesbitt said he did not.

Gremore would not discuss a possible motive, but he said he doesn’t believe the shooting was random.

In 2020, Columbia/Boone County CrimeStoppers raised its reward for any info leading to answers in Roland’s killing and the death of 13 others to $3,000. You can contact CrimeStoppers and provide an anonymous tip at (573)875-8477 and Columbia Police at (573)874-7652.

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Olivia Hayes

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri is calling out Columbia city leaders, after it says a request to discuss city ordinances — which it says targets unhoused people — remains unanswered.

The request was first sent in a letter on July 16 and included support from local and state advocates including COMO Mobile aid Democratic Socialists of America and Missouri Jobs with Justice. It cites two city ordinances as cause for concern being the recently passed median ordinance and the existing 17-95 surrounding camping on public property.

The letter claims the median ordinance violates a person’s rights to free speech and assembly. It went into effect July 1 and prohibits pedestrians and drivers from interacting at medians and intersections where the medians are “narrow, traffic volumes are high, or speed limits are high.”

City ordinance 17-95 makes it illegal for any person in a park to camp in places other than designated areas for organized camping. The downtown Columbia Community Improvement District requested city leaders gather data for a formal Urban Camping Ordinance at an Aug. 14 council meeting, but no type of ordinance has been discussed or officially passed.

The ACLU says it requested the meeting to “better understand the city’s goals, to share the concerns heard directly from members of the community and to discuss potential solutions that promote both public safety and the well-being of all Columbians.”

City spokesman Christopher Ave said in a response to the letter that the Mayor and council members have received the letter and are taking the request into consideration. In the meantime, Ave said the mayor is waiting on staff to provide her research related to the concerns expressed by the ACLU. Ave said staff vacancies have slowed the process down.

However, Ave noted the ACLU and other groups backing the request are welcome to speak freely at City Council meetings.

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