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Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A 48-year-old St. Joseph man died in a crash involving a motorcycle at around 7:30 p.m. Monday in Cooper County.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol announced that it was investigating a two-vehicle crash in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 70 near mile marker 99.

According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, a 2015 Subaru Crosstrek, driven by a 29-year-old woman from Seattle, Washington, was behind a 2014 Harley-Davidson Electra Glide driven by a 48-year-old man from St. Joseph when the motorcycle overturned.

The motorcyclist was ejected off the bike, and the woman hit the man. The Subaru came to a controlled stop in the right lane. The report states the man was pronounced dead at the scene just before 8 p.m.

According to the report, the man was wearing a DOT-approved helmet at the time of the crash.

The report states the woman was not hurt.

The Subaru had minor damage, while the motorcycle was totaled.

The Missouri Department of Transportation wrote on its Traveler Map that the crash was reported at 8 p.m. and the road was expected to be closed for about three hours in total.

MSHP wrote that traffic is backed up for about two miles, but the Traveler Map also showed traffic slowing down in the westbound lanes as vehicles approach the crash area.

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Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA Mo. (KMIZ)

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services announced in a Monday press release that people may have been exposed to measles at Busch Stadium and other areas of St. Louis.

The release did not state how many people with measles were in the reported areas. It also did not state if it was related to another exposure that occurred at a train station in Sedalia last month.

According to the DHSS, possible exposures occurred at:

Sept. 12 3:30-7:50 p.m. The Cat’s Meow-Soulard 2600 S. 11th St., St. Louis Sept. 12 6-11:30 p.m. Busch Stadium,Seated in Section 141 700 Clark Ave., St. Louis Sept. 12 9:30 p.m.-close Paddy O’s 618 S. 7th St., St. Louis Sept. 13 11:30 a.m.-unknown Little Ireland 125 N. 1st St., Pacific Sept. 13 6:30 p.m.-unknown B & H Market 2244 W. Osage St., Pacific Sept. 13 8 p.m.- close Pacific Brew Haus 220 S. 1st. St., Pacific Sept. 14 3-5:15 p.m. Goodcents 173 Long Rd., Chesterfield Sept. 14 5:30-7:45 p.m. Bud’s Market 312 E. Osage St., Pacific

The DHSS says those who may have been exposed should look for symptoms for 21 days from the date of exposure. People who think they may have measles should contact their healthcare provider.

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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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Ellyse Edwards

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Long hours, heavy equipment and pressure to finish work before the weather changes are among the risks farmers face during harvest.

A recent analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data found that 175 farmers, ranchers and agricultural managers died in workplace incidents nationwide in 2024, a fatal injury rate of 19.4 per 100,000 workers. The analysis also counted 147 deaths among miscellaneous agricultural workers, a rate of 19 per 100,000. Transportation incidents were the leading cause of death for both groups.

Shawn Schukar, farmer and president of Ameren Transmission Company of Illinois, told ABC 17 News that exhaustion is one of the biggest safety risks during harvest. Farmers may rush to finish a field before a storm arrives, he said, while dust can reduce visibility around equipment.

“Farmers are spending an enormous amount of time out in the field, quite often rushing because of weather and things like that,” Schukar said. “And really, just remind everybody to take the time to be safe, because it only takes that one second for something bad to happen.”

Schukar advised farmers to shut down equipment before working near rotating parts and to pay attention to power lines when moving large machinery. Missouri’s Show-Me Farm Safety program recommends checking that the area around a tractor is clear before moving it. Its electrical safety guidance also tells farmers to watch for overhead lines and request utility line markings before digging.

In Boone County last Thursday, a man suffered serious injuries in a tractor incident south of Harrisburg. A deputy at the scene told an ABC 17 News photographer the man had been run over. An ambulance took him to University Hospital. How the incident happened and the man’s current condition remain unclear.

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Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

An appeals court has thrown a wrench in the ongoing saga over which congressional map should be used in Missouri for the November election.

The Eighth District Court of Appeals ruled on Monday that the state’s current plans to use the 2022 congressional map in November violate the U.S. Constitution.

“This Court holds that Missouri’s current plan to use the 2022 map in the November 2026 general election violates the Constitution. Only use of the 2025 map complies with the Constitution and federal law. We affirm the district court and remand for entry of a permanent injunction,” the ruling states.

The Missouri Supreme Court upheld the 2022 map at the beginning of Sept. and Secretary of State Denny Hoskins also ordered county clerks to align ballots with the 2022 map in order to purge himself of contempt.

State Sen. Rick Brattin (R-Cass County) and candidate for Missouri’s Fifth Congressional district Rick Brattin called the MOSCO ruling “egregious.”

“This is the map we ran on and the people voted in just about a month and a half ago,” Brattin said. “This is why redrawing maps was solely given from the U.S. Constitution to the Missouri Constitution to the legislature to do this because these courts are unelected, they’re appointed to to just have no forethought as to what they were doing in their ruling.”

The 2025 map was approved by Republicans in the General Assembly at the urging of the White House to squeeze another GOP House seat into the Missouri congressional map. The 2025 map splits up Kansas City’s Fifth District into three other districts which extend into rural Missouri.

The group People Not Politicians, which sued and led a petition drive to keep the 2025 map from going into effect, vowed to file an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court.

“We technically have to go through the Eighth Circuit first and then go to the Supreme Court, but we’ll get that done,” said Richard von Glahn, Executive Director for PNP.

Last week, county clerks warned that it is too late to change the ballots to anything else. Military and overseas ballots have already been sent out, while absentee voting starts Tuesday.

Monday’s ruling also states that the district court “should administratively stay its permanent injunction until September 28, 2026, at 5 p.m. Central Daylight Time. Without any stay, Secretary Hoskins and local election authorities would be required to immediately begin implementing the 2025 map before the Supreme Court receives or decides any appeal.”

Boone County Clerk Brianna Lennon told ABC 17 News that her office is still printing ballots based on the 2022 map and is awaiting a ruling from the Supreme Court.

The 2025 Missouri First Map is up for a vote in November under Proposition A. Von Glahn said voters can make a big statement to lawmakers by voting no.

“If voters want rigged elections that benefit politicians in D.C. and make it harder to hold them accountable, for rising prices and terrible trade policies, we can vote to give politicians a blank check and vote yes on Prop A, but I don’t think that’s what Missourians are going to do,” von Glahn said.

Brattin recommended voters wait to cast their ballot until the legal back and forth resolves.

“Maybe hold off on before you’re casting your ballot when you’re seeing this turmoil and maybe pick another time in a week or two to go and do your absentee,” Brattin said. “That way this can get remedied and we can get clarity from the court.”

ABC 17 News is working to learn more information.

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Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A man is in the Boone County Jail after investigators claim he molested a child at a Bonnie View Park in Columbia on Sept. 14.

Matthew McCoy, 30, of Columbia, is charged in Boone County with second-degree child molestation of a youth younger than 12 years old. He is being held at the Boone County Jail without bond. A hearing was held on Monday.

The probable cause statement says the victim was riding their bike at the park after 4 p.m. Monday, Sept. 14 when McCoy went up to them, put his arm around the victim and molested them. The victim yelled out for a friend who was riding bikes with them and McCoy allegedly tried to say he “fell,” the statement says.

McCoy had allegedly been staring at the victim just prior to the attack. The victim alleged then ran to a soccer goal to hide from McCoy, the statement says.

The mother of the victim told police they saw McCoy back at the park on Thursday, Sept. 17 and had received a photo of him, the statement says. The mother told police residents and parents in the area had shared information through a Facebook group chat.

McCoy was allegedly seen at the Columbia library on the day of the attack, police wrote. The victim was able to identify McCoy from a photo lineup provided by police.

Police wrote in the statement that McCoy had been reported before in April 2025 for following someone at Fairview Park and he allegedly chased someone at Bonnie View Park on June 11.

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Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

An employee at a Jefferson City Walgreen’s has been charged after she allegedly stole $7,822.61 from the business over multiple months.

DeBreana Daniels, of Jefferson City, was charged in Cole County with stealing more than $750. She posted a $5,000 bond on Aug. 11. A criminal summons was issued for Daniels on Thursday and a court date is scheduled for 9 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20.

The probable cause statement says Daniels worked at the Walgreens on Eastland Drive as an evening lead shift. She was responsible for the nightly deposit that went into the safe in the manager’s office and allegedly “shorted” the deposit from May 18-July 26.

A loss-prevention agent determined cash shortages only occurred when Daniels worked, the statement says. Management asked Daniels to show up for an interview on Aug. 6 and she allegedly never showed, court documents state.

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