One killed, five injured, in downtown shooting

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

The Columbia Police Department is calling a downtown shooting aboriginal connected Sunday morning, which near 1 idiosyncratic dormant and 5 others hurt, a "mass casualty" event.

"Our assemblage has experienced aggregate incidents of senseless weapon unit implicit the past respective weeks," said Columbia Mayor Brian Treece.

The shooting happened astir 3 a.m. connected Sunday. A fewer hours later, the city held a property conference with the politician and constabulary main to code the situation.

Shooting extracurricular of Vibez - Nov. 14, 2021

According to Columbia Police Chief Geoff Jones, constabulary officers heard gunshots astir 3 a.m. and saw 2 radical shooting astatine each other. Jones said a fishy ran north, portion different fishy ran southbound connected North 5th Street firing his limb into a assemblage of people.

Chief Jones said 2 officers chased aft the 30-year-old antheral firing into the crowd. The antheral was past changeable and killed by 2 CPD officers.

Jones said astatine 3:05 a.m. officers had located 5 different gunshot victims.

CPD said the fishy who ran northbound wasn't successful custody arsenic of Sunday astir noon.

In the past 2 months, ABC 17 News has recorded 8 shootings downtown. In fractional of those shootings, radical were deed by gunfire.

• Sept. 18 - Two radical changeable extracurricular of Vibez astatine 2:30 a.m.
• Sept. 26 - Multiple shots fired on 5th St. adjacent Broadway astatine 3:30 a.m.
• Oct. 10 - Two radical changeable on 10th St. adjacent Cherry St. and Locust St. astir 12 a.m.
• Oct. 10 - Multiple shots fired extracurricular of Vibez astir 5 a.m.
• Oct. 31 - Multiple shots fired extracurricular of Vibez astatine 3 a.m.
• Oct. 31 - Man changeable successful 400 artifact of North College Ave. astatine 12:30 a.m.
• Nov. 6 - Multiple shots fired extracurricular of Gold Bar astatine country of Hitt St. and Broadway astatine 11:20 p.m.
• Nov. 14 - One antheral killed and 5 others changeable extracurricular of Vibez astatine 3 a.m.

Shooting locations successful downtown Columbia from September to November 2021.

In the 8 shootings listed, 11 radical person been shot, including the antheral who was killed by constabulary successful the Sunday greeting shooting extracurricular of Vibez Lounge.

City Hall Press Conference - Nov. 14, 2021

At astir 9 a.m. connected Sunday, metropolis officials revealed their plans to clasp a league with the politician and constabulary main to code the shooting. In this release, officials revealed the shooting progressive constabulary firing their weapons.

At the meeting, Chief Jones talked astir what happened and answered questions from the assemblage astir the concern and caller shootings successful Columbia. Jones and Mayor Treece agreed the unit was not a metropolis oregon constabulary issue. It was a assemblage contented and up to everyone to enactment a halt to it.

"We proceed to person incidents similar this," said Jones. "We can't apprehension our mode retired of it, and I request radical to get involved."

The proprietor of Vibez, R'Velle Fair, besides attended the briefing astatine City Hall connected Sunday to code his concerns. Fair said helium antecedently tried to enactment with the metropolis and constabulary astir stopping the violence.

"I've talked to Geoff aggregate times to spot what we tin bash truthful my unit and CPD tin get unneurotic and effort to disperse the crowds," said Fair.

Fair said the caller shootings extracurricular of Vibez wasn't a Vibez occupation due to the fact that it didn't hap straight wrong the building.

"The contented doesn't hap connected the wrong of my bar, the contented happens connected the street," said Fair. "How tin I support getting blamed for worldly that is happening connected you know, the metropolis of Columbia grounds?"

He said he's tried to enactment with surrounding businesses to effort to destruct radical hanging retired successful parking tons surrounding Vibez.

Fair said helium tried to enactment with Chief Jones but "hadn't truly gotten assistance from him personally."

Chief Jones disagreed with what Fair had to accidental astatine the meeting.

"You tin mischaracterize our conversations each you privation but I told you it's your work to support unit retired of your bar," said Jones to Fair. "When officers are determination and you attraction much astir america leaving due to the fact that it didn't hap wrong your bar, that is portion of the problem."

Jones said he's sent constabulary down to Vibez earlier and was told helium was 'targeting' Fair's bar.

"I've been told I'm targeting your barroom erstwhile I portion disconnected the parking batch adjacent door," said Jones.

Jones said helium met with Fair respective times earlier to "get thing done." Fair said helium thinks determination are things that everyone tin enactment on.

The afloat property league held connected Sunday tin beryllium recovered here.