Columbia, MO – Special prosecutor Doug Abele announced Monday morning charges will not
be filed against two officers who shot and killed suspect Mark Adair in April in Columbia’s Hitt Street parking garage.
Abele, the Cooper County Prosecutor, says body camera video from the MUPD officer involved in the shooting confirms all of the statements from witnesses.
On April 15, the 51-year-old Adair was killed inside the garage. Earlier that day, Columbia Police say Adair hid inside a woman’s vehicle at Moser’s Supermarket on Keene. When she arrived back at her vehicle, detectives say Adair displayed a handgun and demanded she drive away.
There was a struggle, and the woman was able to escape. Columbia Police and other area law enforcement officers searched for Adair, after the Moser’s incident. The parking garage shooting happened that evening.
