Two dead, one seriously injured in shooting - Columbia Daily Tribune

Columbia police are investigating a homicide after two people were killed in a shooting Sunday on I-70 Drive N.W. near the 1500 block of Garden Avenue.

Officers responded to a call of shots fired at 12:45 p.m. and found three men inside a white SUV who each had gunshot wounds, said Columbia Police Department spokeswoman Latisha Stroer. Jeffery D. Jones, 26, of Milwaukee was pronounced dead at the scene and two others were taken to a local hospital, where one of the men, 32-year-old Michael J. Walker Jr. of Columbia, died from his injuries.

A bullet hole was visible in the front passenger window of a white Audi parked on I-70 Drive N.W. The road was closed from Stadium Boulevard to Garden Avenue as officers processed the scene.

Stroer said she did not have any suspect information and she did not know the total number of gunshots fired. She also couldn't say what the motivation was for the shooting.

Detectives and forensic investigators are examining the scene and interviewing possible witnesses, as well as the two victims at the hospital. Police did not name any of the victims by press time Sunday.

Cynthia Long, who lives near the crime scene, said she called 911 and went up to the white Audi to check on the three victims.

"One was gone and two were trying to breath," she said. "They were just barely alive."

A man who didn't want to be identified said he was the first person on scene after hearing two sets of gunfire with about eight rounds each. He was behind crime scene tape, recounting his interactions with the victims for police.

"The driver responded to me when I first went up there," he said in an interview. "I said, 'We’ve got help coming,' and he grunted and he was moving. He was the only one I saw moving. Then, I went around to the passenger side and I was talking. The other two were moving. I got a response out of both of them."

Another man who did not want to be identified and lives in the area said he saw the police while driving his 8-year-old daughter and 4-year-old son to their mother's home. He said the neighborhood has typically been safe.

"It's a scary situation," he said.

This is the second and third homicide in Columbia this year. Last week, 25-year-old Shamya Brimmage was killed when bullets were shot into her home in the 1000 block of Madison Street.

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