Woman pleads not guilty to firing gun in north Columbia neighborhood that damaged 2 homes
Ryan Shiner
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A woman pleaded not guilty in court on Wednesday to firing a gun in a north Columbia early last month.
Tanajee Hickem-Ricketts, 30, of Columbia, was charged in September with unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal action. She was booked into the Boone County Jail around 1 p.m. Tuesday and is being held without bond. She had a court hearing on Wednesday and pleaded not guilty. A bond hearing is scheduled for 1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7.
The probable cause statement says police were called to a report of shots being fired on North Tyler Drive in northern Columbia on Sept. 2, but did not find a scene.
Police later stopped a vehicle on Clark Lane that had a bullet hole in its windshield, and the driver allegedly told them the vehicle was shot on North Tyler Drive. The driver allegedly told police he was driving to a residence for “a planned fight,” court documents say.
Police went to the residence on Sept. 3 to serve a search warrant and allegedly found a gun and then found four spent shell casings in the yard, the statement says.
Hickem-Ricketts arrived home and allegedly told police she fired a gun when she saw “multiple carloads of people drive onto her street,” court documents say. At least two homes were hit by gunfire, the statement says.