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Man charged in 2017 fatal shooting at Columbia mall

(AP) – A Jefferson City man is charged with first-degree involuntary manslaughter after a shooting death at the Columbia Mall.

The Columbia Daily Tribune reports 25-year-old Scott Ray Randolph was charged Monday in the Thanksgiving 2017 death at the mall.

Jeffery Swope, of Jefferson City, died after being shot while in a vehicle in the mall’s parking lot.

Columbia police detective Jonathan Voss said in a probable cause statement that Randolph called 911 and said he was putting his gun in a holster when it went off and bullet struck Swope in the eye.

However, Voss wrote that he found the weapon in the holster and no signs of damage consistent with a firearm going off inside it.

Online court records do not name an attorney who could speak for Randolph.

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