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<p style="font-size: 150%; font-weight: bold;">COMMUNITY INFORMATION</p>
<p style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: -5px; font-weight:bold;">January 12, 2023</p>
<p style="float:right; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom: 25px; font-size: 100%; text-align:right;">CONTACT: Christian Tabak
<br />Public Information Specialist
<br />Columbia Police Department
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<br />Toni Messina
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<br />Columbia Police Department
<br />City of Columbia
<br />573.874.7660
<br />policepio@CoMo.gov</p>
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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%;">Columbia Police release information regarding officer-involved shooting in the 4200 block of Clark Lane, Jan. 11</h1>
<div class="content"><span style="padding-left: 50px;">(COLUMBIA, MO)</span> - On Jan. 11 at approximately 5:45 p.m. Columbia Police were involved in an officer-involved shooting in the 4200 block of Clark Lane. The subject involved is identified as Jordan Pruyn, 28, of Columbia. <br /><br />At approximately 1:15 p.m. on Jan. 11 Columbia Police responded to a report of a disturbance with a weapon in the 4200 block of Clark Lane. It was reported to officers who were responding to the active assault with a weapon that the subject had assaulted multiple individuals and that others in the area were in danger. <br /><br />Officers arrived on scene and Mr. Pruyn then retreated into a mobile home, where he barricaded himself inside while officers attempted to make contact with him. <br /><br />Multiple resources were called to the scene to help resolve the situation, including the Department’s Crisis Negotiation Team, medics, the Department’s embedded Community Behaviora
l Health Liaisons and the SWAT team. <br /><br />After multiple attempts to communicate with him, Mr. Pruyn exited the front door with a knife and ran toward officers in a threatening manner while officers were telling him to drop the knife. When Mr. Pruyn continued to run without dropping the knife, two officers fired at him, striking him. He was then taken by EMS to a local hospital where he later succumbed to his injuries.<br /><br />"There are multiple people impacted when events like this occur and we have to find ways to support each other," said Chief Geoff Jones. "I would like to thank the citizens who patiently waited for our officers on scene to address the situation, as well as the Missouri State Highway Patrol, our embedded Community Behavioral Health Liaisons, Columbia Fire Department, Boone Hospital EMS, University Hospital EMS and Emergency Department staff, and other first responders for assisting us." <br /><br />At this time, the case is being investiga
ted by the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control while CPD runs its Internal Affairs Investigation concurrently. This is an ongoing investigation. More information may become available later. Although we will not speak about specific personnel actions or disclose investigative information, it is our practice to place officers who are directly involved in these incidents on administrative leave, pending the outcome of criminal and internal investigations.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />View the Columbia Police Department’s <a href="https://public.powerdms.com/COLU/documents/375585">Officer-Involved Shooting Policy</a>.<br /><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Case Number 2023-000334</strong></div></div>
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