The Roots N Blues Festival 2022 is just a few days away and if you haven’t already gotten your pass, time is running out. From Friday through Sunday at Stephens Lake Park, attendees will get to listen to music, enjoy drinks, food and more, but passes are dwindling. Roots N Blues officials reported earlier this […]
UPDATE: Missouri’s Parole Board revokes parole for man charged with throwing Columbia woman to her death off bridge
Graphic court documents obtained by 939 the Eagle say a Columbia woman who was thrown to her death from the northbound Highway 63 overpass near Clark lane suffered severe spine injuries and internal bleeding, before she died.
Boone County prosecutors have charged 31-year-old Jessie Williams with first degree murder for the gruesome death of 24-year-old Kaylen Ann Schmit, and Missouri’s Probation and Parole Board has now revoked Williams’ parole.
The Columbia Police Department’s probable cause statement says she was thrown 38 feet to her death. One witness tells CPD investigators that he saw Williams and the victim in a nearby homeless camp less than 30 minutes before the incident, and that Schmit was trying to get some belongings back from Williams. The court documents also quote two witnesses who allegedly observed Williams trying to throw the victim off the bridge. Both witnesses were motorists on northbound Highway 63, and one saw the victim fighting back and squirming in an attempt to get out of the suspect’s grip.
After Williams was captured outside Sam’s Club on Tuesday evening, detectives say he became combative with officers while inside the Columbia police station. The probable cause statement says Williams has multiple arrests for resisting arrest and has been arrested in multiple states.
Williams, who was paroled from prison on August 8, is now incarcerated at the state prison in Fulton. He served about four years of a seven-year prison sentence for the brutal 2018 attack of an elderly Columbia homeless man, inside his tent.
UPDATE: Columbia Police identify 24-year-old woman thrown to her death from bridge
UPDATE:
Columbia Police have identified the woman who was thrown to her death last (Tuesday) night from a Highway 63 bridge near Clark lane as 24-year-old Kaylen Ann Schmit. She was pronounced dead at University Hospital.
HERE IS BRIAN’S ORIGINAL STORY:
Columbia Police are seeking first degree murder charges against a Columbia parolee accused of throwing a woman to her death from a bridge over Highway 63, near Clark lane.
CPD spokesman Christian Tabak says the victim was thrown from the 63 bridge at about 6:45 Tuesday evening, across Clark lane near the Steak ‘n Shake and Bob Evans. Tabak says the victim was found in a wooded area beneath Highway 63 and was immediately transported to University Hospital, where she received extensive trauma care.
She died a few hours later and her name hasn’t been released, pending notification of relatives.
Tabak identifies the suspect as 31-year-old Jessie Williams, who was paroled from prison in August after serving about four years of a seven year sentence for stabbing a homeless man. Columbia Police captured Williams after witnesses provided a detailed description. Tabak says Williams resisted police, when they arrived.
939 the Eagle’s Brad Tregnago covered the brutal December 2018 stabbing near the Casey’s gas station on Rangeline, and quoted court documents as saying the incident was random. Tregnago reported that Williams attacked a 73-year-old homeless man, shooting him with a paintball gun and stabbing him several times.
That victim suffered life-threatening injuries, according to previous reporting from 939 the Eagle.
Wednesday groundbreaking set for TopTracer Golf in Columbia
TopTracer Range will be building its second Missouri location just west of Columbia, at Midway Golf and Games.
A groundbreaking event for the multi-million dollar facility is set for 4:30 this (Wednesday) afternoon at Midway Golf and Games, which is visible from I-70.
TopTracer is owned by Top Golf, and they’re planning to build a 16,000 square feet facility that will include 18 to 20 elevated bays. Each bay can accommodate four to six golfers at a time.
A restaurant and a bar and grill are also planned.
TopTracer says the new facility will give people of all skill levels the chance to enjoy golf. The facility’s technology is aimed at giving you the opportunity to play hundreds of golf courses around the world, without leaving Boone County. It will be similar to the popular Top Golf in Chesterfield.
939 the Eagle’s Fred Parry reports the local owners include Tim and Toby Rost, the owners of Rost Landscaping and Superior Garden Center.
Missouri Task Force continues to go house to house in Fort Myers Beach, Florida
The sheriff in Fort Myers, Florida says his deputies are tiring from Hurricane Ian, with no end in sight. Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno tells the “Fort Myers News-Press” that his crews have assisted with 842 rescues and have recovered 55 bodies, thus far.
Meantime, a 55-member team from Columbia-based Missouri Task Force One (MO-TF1) is assisting in Fort Myers Beach, going house to house and structure by structure searching for survivors and victims. Boone County Fire Protection District assistant chief Gale Blomenkamp tells 939 the Eagle that the team is seeing total devastation.
“You know our task force leader that took the team down there this time has been on multiple task force deployments throughout the country on different types of events. And he said yesterday that this is some of the worst damage he’s ever seen,” Blomenkamp says.
Missouri Task Force One also has a four-member drone team on nearby San Carlos Island. They’ve used drones and infrared cameras to search the inside of several hundred boats.
“While they were there, they were searching over 300 shrimp boats, pleasure boats and sailboats that literally had been pushed into yards, pushed into houses and were into the mangroves,” says Blomenkamp.
He says Missouri Task Force One’s drones searched every boat, using infrared cameras and zoom functions. Due to their work, the Fort Myers port authority has verified that all boat captains and crews are accounted for on the boats searched by Task Force One.
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