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The Boone County Sheriff's Office is investigating the death of Columbia attorney, Steven Wyse, according to Capt. Brian Leer. No foul play is suspected in his death, but the investigation
"And now she's flying," Treece said. Treece made his statement Wednesday at Columbia College during a celebration and reception for the new Nadria Leeann Wright Memorial Nursing Scholarship, which was unveiled last week on what would have been Wright's 20th birthday. Nadria was 18 when she died on Sept. 13, 2019. A freshman nursing student at Columbia College, she was a passenger in a car when she was struck by a gunshot intended for the driver. Columbia College teamed up with Regional Economic Development Inc. and the Missouri Women's Business Center to offer the scholarship. The scholarshi...
Nadria Wright would have been 20 on Tuesday. The Columbia College student's life ended on Sept. 13, 2019, when she was a passenger in a car, killed by a gunshot intended for the driver. She was the seventh person killed by gun violence in Columbia in 2019. She was 18 and a freshman nursing student at Columbia College. She had been a member of the Blue Thunder Track Club and played saxophone in the Battle High School band. She traveled to China to study at Shanghai University with Columbia Public Schools and the Confucius Institute. Now, a group of organizations has formed to launch the Nad...
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The family of Nadria Wright, an 18-year-old woman who was killed in a September 2019 Columbia shooting, feels like justice wasn't served today. "I was told explicitly how they [the prosecution] feel about it," Hamilton said. "That they don't represent me and my family and now that I know that, I'm gonna see what I can do to try to make sure that our families are represented when something like this happens." The Columbia man accused in the shooting killed Nadria Wright and left a man injured. He was sentenced on Friday to seven years in prison. Javion Lawhorn, 31 entered ...
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Columbia man who shot an 18-year-old woman to death while she...