Columbia man charged with assault after gun goes off during fight
Melissa Houston
COLUMBIA, Mo (KMIZ)
A 22-year-old Columbia man was charged Monday with first-degree assault and armed criminal action after a gun went off during a fight outside an east Columbia apartment complex.
Lorenzo Toledo remained in the Boone County Jail on Monday without bond after his arrest Sunday.
The Columbia Police Department responded to a call around 2 a.m. Sunday of shots fired in the 10 block of Old Highway 63, outside Cliffside Manor apartments.
The probable cause statement states that the 26-year-old victim was taken to the hospital with minor head injuries.
The victim told officers that Toledo had a gun and threatened to kill him, according to the statement. The victim allegedly told police that the gun went off as he and the victim were fighting, and he felt pain like a bar hitting him in the head and believed he had been shot.
However, the statement doesn’t explicitly say the victim’s wound was from a bullet.
Toledo told police that the victim had been “trolling” him and that the gun was fired accidentally during the struggle, according to the statement. A bullet hit the window of a vehicle when the gun went off.
Toledo is set to appear for his arraignment in court at 1 p.m. Monday.
Crimes against persons are seeing a slight downward trend, according to a graph from the Columbia Police Department.
It shows that from January to July 2025, 1,037 crimes have been reported, compared to 1,027 crimes so far this year.
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