A Boone County judge has scheduled July 8 as the next court date for a Columbia man jailed without bond for allegedly kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman he followed from the Mizzou campus.
A Boone County grand jury has indicted 22-year-old Nicholas Randall Mathews with sodomy or attempted sodomy, kidnapping and three other felonies.
The Columbia Police Department’s heavily-redacted four-page probable cause statement is graphic, saying the victim was attacked on April 2 at about 1 am in a parking lot of an apartment building. Court documents say Mathews allegedly threatened to kill the woman unless she stayed quiet and then forced her to perform oral sex. The court documents say Mathews followed the woman near the Turner Avenue parking garage and drove through a red light to follow her.
The probable cause statement quotes Mathews as telling police after he was arrested that he’s followed other vehicles and has “urges” to assault women. He’s also accused of stealing $80 from the victim.
The Turner Avenue parking garage is near the Newman Center.
