And it starts. Here, there was a shooting near a high school. The schools, not the University, went into look-down. I have 2 sisters that work at 2 different buildings. So for about 20 mintues, no one knew for sure what was going on. And no one could reach them. The shooting didn't occur at a school, just near one.
Police identify Columbia teen killed in shooting
By JOE MEYER of the Tribune's staff Published on columbiatribune.com Thursday, April 19, 2007
| Don Shrubshell photo |
Columbia police and Boone County sheriff’s deputies stand watch outside a duplex Wednesday at the corner of Bearfield Road and Prescott Drive, where officers detained three people after a shooting that left a man critically injured. |
Two Columbia men were arrested Wednesday night after gunfire between two vehicles in south Columbia resulted in Columbia’s first homicide of the year.
| Parker Eshelman photo |
Columbia and University of Missouri-Columbia police stand on Providence Road near an ambulance and a car that was occupied by a critically wounded passenger. Police found the victim after stopping the car for erratic driving near MU’s Reactor Park. The male victim was taken for treatment at a local hospital. |
Lorenzo Ladiner, 20, and Kristopher M. Prince, 17, were arrested on second-degree murder charges in the shooting death of 17-year-old Tedarrian C. Robinson of Columbia.
The two were in custody today at the Boone County Jail with bond set at $750,000 each.
The episode started at about 2:50 p.m. yesterday, when police received reports of gunfire from one vehicle toward another near Grindstone Parkway and Bearfield Road.
Shortly thereafter, an off-duty police sergeant stopped an Impala on northbound Providence Road near Reactor Field and discovered Robinson in the car with gunshot wounds. An ambulance was called and he was transported to University Hospital.
Robinson was pronounced dead at University Hospital at 3:30 p.m. from a gunshot wound to the back of the head, Capt. Brad Nelson said.
Nelson said the driver of the Impala appeared to be heading to the hospital.
Police said there were three people in the Impala and four people in the other vehicle at the time of the shooting.
Police detained at least three people yesterday afternoon in the Bearfield neighborhood, where police tape blocked Bearfield Road for a few blocks near Prescott Drive. A black Chrysler parked on Santa Rosa Court behind Prescott was also surrounded by police tape as officers searched inside it.
University of Missouri-Columbia student Brett Geeser, who lives down the street from a Prescott residence where police responded, said he heard gunshots and saw police take three people - two women and a man - from the house.
Geeser described residents in the neighborhood as mostly college students and said he first thought the noises he heard were fireworks. He said the area had been relatively quiet this school year.
“You don’t think anything like that would happen here,” he said. “Most of these duplexes haven’t been rented out.”
Local schools in the area were under a precautionary lockdown for about a half-hour yesterday afternoon, but assistant Superintendent Lynn Barnett of Columbia Public Schools said they were re-opened after about 20 minutes.