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<p style="font-size: 150%; font-weight: bold;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</p>
<p style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: -5px; font-weight:bold;">September 3, 2020</p>
<p style="float:right; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom: 25px; font-size: 100%; text-align:right;">CONTACT: Jeff Pitts
<br />Community Relations Specialist/Public Information Officer
<br />Columbia Police Department
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<br />policepio@CoMo.gov
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<br />Brittany Hilderbrand
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<br />Columbia Police Department
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<br />573.874.7671
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<div style="font-size: 110%; line-height:150%;"><h1 style="clear:both; margin-top: 75px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">UPDATE- Arrest made for Aug. 25 homicide near Douglass Park, 400 block of N. Providence Road</h1>
<div class="content"><span style="padding-left: 50px;">(COLUMBIA, MO)</span> - <p style="display:inline;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rickey Lee Murry, 48, of Columbia was arrested on Wednesday, Sept. 2 on charges of murder 1st and armed criminal action. Murry has been remanded to the custody of the Boone County Jail. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The arrest was in relation to a report of shots fired in the area of the 400 block of N. Providence Rd. at approximately 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 25. During the investigation, officers located one victim with a gunshot wound. The victim was transported to a local hospital and died as a result of his injuries. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There are no further details to provide at this time. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you know something, say something. Anyone with information about this incident is asked to please contact the Columbia Police Department at 573.874.7652 or CrimeStoppers at 573.875.TIPS (8477) to remain anonymous.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Case number 2020-007818</strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Columbia Police investigate shots fired near Douglass Park, 400 N Providence Rd.; Patrol vehicles crash while responding, Aug. 25<br /></span><a href="https://www.como.gov/CMS/pressreleases/view.php?id=7006"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://www.como.gov/CMS/pressreleases/view.php?id=7006</span></a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Columbia Police Department to host press conference Wednesday, Aug. 26 regarding an overnight homicide<br /></span><a href="https://www.como.gov/CMS/pressreleases/view.php?id=7003"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://www.como.gov/CMS/pressreleases/view.php?id=7003</span></a></p>
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<p><a href="https://gocolumbiamo.granicus.com/player/clip/2109?view_id=13&redirect=true"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://gocolumbiamo.granicus.com/player/clip/2109?view_id=13&redirect=true</span></a></p></div>
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