Police looking for man who shot at churchgoers
Columbia Missourian, MO - 1 hour ago
... At about 9:05 pm, police responded to a report of a masked man firing shots at a crowd of people leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses Assembly Hall, located at ... Missourian News December 19, 2006
Police looking for man who shot at churchgoers
By BRENT ADAMS Columbia police were looking for a man who fired at worshipers leaving a north Columbia church Monday night, wounding a 36-year-old woman. At about 9:05 p.m., police responded to a report of a masked man firing shots at a crowd of people leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses Assembly Hall, located at 2207 Holly Ave., in north Columbia. When police arrived at the church, they found an unidentified woman who had been hit in her hip and her arm. She was taken to a local hospital, treated for non-life-threatening injuries and has been released, according to a news release from the Columbia Police Department. “The entire Major Crimes Unit is working on this and has made this a priority,” said Sgt. Ken Hammond, head of the unit. “We have been working throughout the night.” According to the news release, the suspect was wearing a mask and dark clothing, is between 5 feet 7 inches and 5 feet 9 inches and weighs about 160 pounds. Hammond said that there was no evidence that the hall or the victim were specifically targeted. According to a recording on the church’s answering machine, the building is used by four congregations: a south Columbia congregation, a Spanish-language congregation, an Oakland Gravel congregation and a Hinkson Creek congregation