CALL THEM MACARONI NO NEW EVIDENCE

Eight macaroni penguin chicks CPS can’t substantiate claims that

hatched from eggs incubated at the Jackson football team harassed
the Kansas City Zoo after being Battle or that Battle trashed a lock-
flown in from SeaWorld San Diego er room in a September game
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‘OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME’ Police

New MU football coach Eliah Drinkwitz stands for a round of applause Tuesday at the Show-Me Club at Memorial Stadium in Columbia. Drinkwitz was formally
introduced as the Tigers’ 33rd head football coach, replacing Barry Odom.
BY ELI LEDERMAN
Drinkwitz introduced sports@columbiamissourian.com
After four days of reports and
as MU football coach speculation, flights to and from
North Carolina, meetings in Hamp-
after six-year, $24M
ton Inn hotel rooms and a perfor-
mance of “The Nutcracker,” the
contract is approved expected finally became the official
Tuesday morning.
MORE COVERAGE ON PAGE 1B
In full view of Faurot Field inside
Memorial Stadium’s Show-Me Club,
at an event that was as much a pep
rally — complete with a march-
ing band, Truman the Tiger and
even smoke machines — as a press
conference, Eliah Drinkwitz was
introduced as the 33rd head football
investigate
homicide at
Welcome
Inn motel
BY MARIANA LABBATE
news@columbiamissourian.com
Columbia police found a man
shot to death in his still-running
car around midnight Monday.
Marceino Carlous Moore,
36, was found in his car in the
parking lot of the Welcome
Inn motel at 1612 N. Provi-
dence Road, according to a
statement from the Columbia
Police Department.
Police on patrol started
investigating after a run-
ning car was spotted in the
motel parking lot at around
11:50 p.m. Monday, the state-
ment said.
Shortly after midnight, the
hotel parking lot was jammed
with police and emergency
vehicles, including an ambu-
lance and a firetruck.
Officers could be seen
investigating a beige SUV.
The vehicle was towed away
from the scene at 5 a.m.,
KOMU reported.
EMMALEE REED/Missourian
According to the news
release, Moore was found
unresponsive with a gunshot
wound inside a vehicle and
coach of the Missouri Tigers. His was pronounced dead at the
new contract was approved unani-
mously by the MU Board of Cura-
scene. No other suspects or
victims were found.
tors earlier Tuesday morning.
The contract will pay the 36-year-
There are no suspects in
the case. Anyone with rel-
old coach $24 million over six years, evant information can call
with up to $850,000 available to him the police department at
in performance-related bonuses 573-874-7652 or, to remain
anonymous, CrimeStoppers
Please see DRINKWITZ, Page 4A at 573-875-TIPS (8477).

In Missouri’s juvenile justice system, kids can restrain other kids

BY EMILY WOLF
news@columbiamissourian.com
Gary Edge’s son was the muscle
at Cornerstone.
The 15-year-old, who was placed
in the custody of the juvenile cor-
rectional home in Columbia, is big
for his age: 5 feet, 10 inches, 180
pounds. So, Edge’s son said, employ-
ees liked to have him restrain other
kids.
“It seems completely insane to
me,” Edge said. “That’s just asking
for kids to get hurt.”
During one restraint, his son suf-
fered a concussion serious enough
to send him to the hospital.
Staff members aren’t reenact-
ing a version of “Fight Club” at
Cornerstone — they’re following a
state-sanctioned policy. In Missou-
ri’s juvenile corrections system,
there are two options for physically
restraining kids. On some occa-
sions, staffers will do it.
Most of the time, the youths have
to handle it.
In the juvenile corrections facili-
ties, staffers can call on the wards
in their care to hold each other
down. There’s no opting out — once
you’re in the facility, you become
responsible for everyone there.
Proponents of the policy say it
helps youth offenders work through
their emotions without being
put into isolation. Critics say it
retraumatizes already emotionally
scarred children.
Kids restraining kids
There are four reasons staffers
can initiate physical restraints:
to defend against attack, prevent
imminent injury to self or others,
prevent escape from the Division
of Youth Services programs and
supervision, and prevent substantial
property damage, according to a
DYS policy.
When a staffer initiates a group
restraint, the kids grab the arms
and legs of whoever among them
has been deemed out of control. The
group holds them on the floor until
the offender is no longer combative.
“This model emphasizes account-
ability, greater awareness of all
youth and allows our staff and youth
to work together to strengthen the
team approach, ensuring the saf-
est outcome for all involved,” said
Rebecca Woelfel, Department of
Health and Senior Services public
information officer, in an email.
Mark Steward, a former DYS
director, said the peer-led restraints
give the aggressor a chance to calm
down and talk to staff members
afterward about what caused their
behavior.
“What they’ll do is hold the kid
until they calm down or settle down,
and then (the staffers) will talk with
them and sit there and find out what
happened,” Steward said. “It’s just a
temporary measure.”
Scott Odum, DYS director, said
that other states use isolation, mace HILLARY TAN/Missourian
and other measures that Missouri Gary Edge’s son poses for a portrait Nov. 30 next to a lake outside his home in Versailles,
does not. Missouri. “I used to swim in there when I was younger, but then I realized how dirty it is,”
he said. Edge’s son is glad to finally be home but is still worried for the other children in
Please see RESTRAIN, Page 6A the correctional home.

Democrats unveil impeachment charges; Trump left ‘no choice’

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INDEX After months of impeachment talk, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, flanked by the his political rivals, including Democrat Joe
chairmen of impeachment inquiry com- Biden, while withholding U.S. military aid
Abby7A
House Democrats took a major mittees at the U.S. Capitol, said they were as leverage. That benefited Russia over
Classifieds5B step on Tuesday to try to remove upholding their solemn oath to defend the the U.S. as America’s ally fought Russian
Nation3A President Trump from office Constitution. Trump responded angrily on aggression, the Democrats said.
Obituaries2A Twitter: “WITCH HUNT!” Trump then obstructed Congress by
BY LISA MASCARO Voting is expected in a matter of days ordering current and former officials
Opinion5A
AND MARY CLARE JALONICK by the Judiciary Committee, which begins to defy House subpoenas for testimony
Sports1B deliberations Wednesday, and by Christ- and by blocking access to documents, the
The Associated Press
Sudoku6B mas in the full House. The charges, if charges say.
TV schedule 8B WASHINGTON — House Democrats approved, would then be sent to the Senate, By his conduct, Trump “demonstrated
announced two articles of impeachment where the Republican majority would be he will remain a threat to national security
Our 112th year/#63 against President Donald Trump on Tues- unlikely to convict Trump, but not without and the Constitution if allowed to remain
2 sections day, declaring he “betrayed the nation” a potentially bitter trial just as voters in in office,” the nine-page impeachment res-
16 pages with his actions toward Ukraine as they Iowa and other early presidential primary olution says.
pushed toward historic proceedings that states begin making their choices. “If we did not hold him accountable, he
are certain to help define his presidency In the formal articles announced Tues- would continue to undermine our election,”
and shape the 2020 election. day, the Democrats said Trump enlisted Pelosi said later at a forum sponsored by
The specific charges aimed at removing a foreign power in “corrupting” the U.S. Politico. “Nothing less is at stake than the
the 45th president of the U.S.: abuse of election process and endangered national
6 54051 90850 3 power and obstruction of Congress. security by asking Ukraine to investigate Please see IMPEACH, Page 3A
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From game day

Friday & Saturday, OctOber 4-5, 2019

KICKOFF
drinking rules to this cale Cale Garrett
year’s parade route, ‘s searched for clarity
our special section happy trails and understanding
has everything you The star linebacker’s journeys into
the wilderness — from Pike’s Peak to
the bluffs of mid-Missouri — hint at
through much of
need to make the something deeper, something that was
missing from his life for a long time.
his life. He found it
university’s most in a place he never
historic tradition one imagined would
you will never forget. bring it.
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Fear beats desire to aid police after shootings

The city’s history has led
to trust problems and fears
of retaliation in the most
affected neighborhoods
BY XANDER NEGOZIO
news@columbiamissourian.com
“My kids don’t come out of the
house to catch the bus until that
bus is right there,” said Aleasha
Harris, pointing across the street
from her house on Rice Road. “Not
anymore.”
Her grandchildren’s bus stop sits
just across from the yard where
Antonio Houston and Danielle
Marine were recently found shot
to death. A plush bear and with- all they can. it’s possible that it’s the greatest ings are keeping children inside
ered flowers mark the place. So does one of her neighbors, a number of homicides in one month their homes.
The day after Houston and woman who lives on McKee Street. in the city’s modern history. Rose Bradshaw, a Lasalle Place
Marine’s violent deaths, three “It’s not a police issue; it’s a Mayor Brian Treece and Police resident, said she doesn’t feel com-
shots were fired into Harris’ home issue,” she said. Chief Geoff Jones held a news fortable letting her kids play out-
house. She and her grandchildren The recent violence brought conference last week to ask the side anymore.
were upstairs. After the summer back memories of a teen who was community for help in solving the “You’re scared to go to stores,
of 2018 when the sound of gunfire shot and killed in McKee Park five crimes. Since then, several arrests and outside, and ... I try to stay in,
started to become commonplace, years ago. “People need to get their have been made. But in some mostly.”
her grandchildren learned the rou- children, and look after their chil- neighborhoods, the desire to speak Bradshaw hasn’t been in the
tine, she said: “They know to hit dren more than they do,” she said. out is eclipsed by fear of retalia- neighborhood long, and although
the floor.” In September, six people were tion. It’s a trust problem, some say,
she’d like to offer comfort to those
“I’m packing right now. I’m fatally shot in Columbia in 12 days, that has roots in the city’s history.
touched by the recent crime in her
moving Friday,” Harris said. “I’m the greatest number of homicides neighborhood, she’s anxious about
scared.” in one month since 2001, according Keeping their heads down
doing it.
Her landlord has let her out of to Missouri State Highway Patrol Across town from Harris’ north- “Some people around here —
her lease. But even if he hadn’t, “I data and Columbia Police Depart- east neighborhood, fear is also the they’ve been affected by the inci-
was gone anyway,” she said. ment records. That’s as far back prevalent feeling. In the Douglass
Harris believes police are doing as easily accessible records go, so Park neighborhood, recent shoot- Please see TRUST, Page 4A

Block party Hyperloop pod meets Tigers on campus

planned at site
of shootings;
neighbors try
to find peace
BY RACHEL ZALUCKI
news@columbiamissourian.com
Several reports of shots fired
at Rice Road and Boyd Lane on
Wednesday evening prompted
a response from the Columbia
Police Department.
This is the second reported
case of shots fired near Rice
Road in the past few weeks.
Antonio Lasha Houston, 36,
and Danielle Beverly-Mae
Marine, 33, both of Columbia,
were found dead as a result of
gunshot wounds in the lawn
of a home Sept. 22 on the 2100
block of McKee Street near Rice
Road.
Glenn Cobbins, a communi-
ty activist, is planning a block
party for the Rice Road neigh-
borhood from 4 to 6 p.m. Sun-
day. He hopes people will come
out, get to know their neighbors
better and find a way to relax
despite the recent violence.
There were no obvious victims
or suspects in the area when
officers arrived Wednesday, BAYLEE KONEN/Missourian
according to a city news release. A Hyperloop One pod sits outside Jesse Hall on Thursday on Francis Quadrangle. The Hyperloop pod will be on display until Friday.
Multiple witnesses reported see-
ing two vehicles leave the area BY JUDY LUCAS was displayed on MU’s Francis One asserts that the world has Sarah Lawson, the marketing
around the time the shots were news@columbiamissourian.com Quadrangle. not seen a new form of trans- project manager, has been with
reported. Hyperloop technology is a pro- portation in 100 years. The the company for three years. She
Later that evening, police The Virgin Hyperloop One pod posed energy-efficient transpor- hyperloop will be emission-free, says that it has “been running
responded to another call looks just as cool as it sounds. tation system that uses magnetic energy-efficient, extremely fast, over 400 tests with this vehi-
regarding a wounded subject The slick, pill-shaped capsule, levitation and vacuum technology quiet and direct, according to the cle. We are the only hyperloop
at the 3600 block of Chest- about the size of a school bus, to move through a tube from one company’s website. company that has run this many
nut Drive. Police were able to will hold almost 30 people and destination to another. The company has been testing tests.”
travel almost 700 miles an hour The privately owned and fund- the new mode of transportation
Please see SHOOTING, Page 4A through a tube. On Thursday, it ed company, Virgin Hyperloop for the last four years. Please see HYPERLOOP, Page 3A

Mo. Supreme Court assesses new voter ID law

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INDEX State Supreme Court to sign a sworn statement and tioned whether a rewrite is Legislature overrode the
present some other form of allowed. veto of then-Gov. Jay Nixon,
Abby7A judges are deciding identification to cast a regular “There is no authority for a Democrat. Voters in 2016
Classifieds5B whether a voter photo ID ballot. that,” plaintiffs’ attorney Marc also approved a constitutional
Nation8A
Obituaries2A
law should be blocked But Senior Cole County Elias said of the possibility for amendment intended to permit
Circuit Court Judge Richard the secretary of state to redraft photo identification laws.
Opinion5A BY SUMMER BALLENTINE Callahan in 2018 struck down the affidavit. Voter photo ID requirements
Sports1B The Associated Press the requirement that voters High court judges also ques- have been pushed by Repub-
Sudoku6B JEFFERSON CITY — The without proper photo ID sign tioned whether the law allows licans in numerous states as
TV schedule 8B fate of a key part of Missouri’s a sworn statement. He ruled them to revamp the sworn a means of preventing fraud.
that the affidavit was mislead- statement, which lawmakers They have been opposed by
new voter photo identification
Our 112th year/#15 ing because it implied proper had outlined in the legislation. Democrats who contend such
law is now in the hands of “What you’re asking for is laws can disenfranchise poor,
2 sections photo ID is necessary to vote,
16 pages state Supreme Court judges, despite the fact that the law changing (the affidavit),” Judge elderly, disabled and minority
who on Thursday questioned had allowed voters without ID Laura Denvir Stith told Sauer voters who are less likely to
state attorneys’ requests to at who signed the affidavit to cast in court. “We have many cases have photo IDs.
least spare parts of the provi- ballots. that say we cannot rewrite the Washington-based liberal
sion. Attorneys for the plaintiffs statute for the Legislature.” advocacy group Priorities USA
The law had directed voters who sued over the law and The 2016 law was enact- filed the lawsuit on behalf of
6 54051 90850 3 to present a valid photo ID or Supreme Court judges ques- ed when the Republican-led some Missouri voters.
CONCEALED CARRY? BREAKING THE BOYS CLUB VIRGINIA VICTORIOUS
A Missouri bill that would allow Interim Columbia College athletic The Cavaliers triumphed in an
concealed carry on college director Cindy Potter is breaking overtime thriller to edge out
campuses moved closer to ground as one of few women at the Texas Tech for the men’s NCAA
becoming law after House approval helm in college athletics Tournament championship
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City to make repairs after ‘bump’ causes flight cancellations

BY TYNAN STEWART
news@columbiamissourian.com
All commercial and general
air traffic at Columbia Regional
Airport will stop beginning Tues-
day while the city makes runway
repairs to eliminate a bump pilots
have complained about since they
began using a secondary runway
last week.
The closure will last at least a
week and comes after United and
American airlines canceled flights
in and out of the airport.
Interim City Manager John
Glascock said at a news confer-
ence Monday that the city plans to
reopen the airport next Tuesday.
The airport’s main runway
closed April 1, and airlines were
using a secondary runway that was
renovated in 2017. On Saturday,
regional carriers for United and
American announced they were
temporarily suspending flights.
Their pilots were concerned
about a “crown” at the intersection
of the two runways, which causes
pilots and passengers to feel like
they’re hitting a bump during take-
offs and landings.
Bryan Chester, the Missourian’s
general manager, was on a week-
end flight into Columbia.
“We touched down, and then,
all of a sudden, we smacked into
something,” Chester said. “The
plane jumped and slammed back
down again.”
“It was a very loud and hard hit;
definitely not normal,” he said.
Glascock said the crown on the
main runway helps with water
drainage and is required by the
Federal Aviation Administration.
But pilots using the secondary
runway have to cross that crown
Please see AIRPORT, page 3A

SUSPENSION EFFECT
Black students are disproportionately suspended in Missouri,
leaving lifelong impacts on their ability to succeed
From left, Gavin Schoen, 9, D’Avion Jones, 12, Trenton Schoen, 12, and Devin Maupin, Trenton’s father, walk Dec. 12 to the courthouse in Boonville. On the
walk, Maupin cautioned Trenton to keep quiet during the meeting. Maupin is trying to find an attorney to represent his son. Maupin’s personal attorney
won’t represent Trenton because he doesn’t take on juvenile cases.
BY TESSA WEINBERG AND THOMAS OIDE • Missourian
In Missouri, if you’re a black student,
your chances of getting suspended are
much higher than those of white stu-
dents.
An analysis of nearly a decade’s worth
of Missouri Department of Elementary
and Secondary Education school suspen-
sion data, obtained by the Missourian
through a records request, shows that
black students represent twice as many
suspensions as would be expected.
That’s not news to 12-year-old Trenton
Schoen and his family.
On a December afternoon, amid the
exodus of kids buzzing with the excite-
ment of being out of Laura Speed Elliot
Middle School, Trenton walked against
the fray, with headphones tucked behind
his ears and a gray backpack almost as
big as him.
“Oh, yeah, mom. I have detention,”
Trenton said as he joined his family.
“For what?” Heather Schoen asked.
“I was talking back.”
In just one week, the Boonville middle
FOR MORE COVERAGE
For more news about school suspensions in
Missouri, check our media partner KOMU’s
10 p.m. Tuesday newscast.
School Board
updates some
policies ... and
its members
BY HANNAH HOFFMEISTER
news@columbiamissourian.com
The approval of 2019-20 capital
improvement projects headlined
Monday night’s Columbia School
Board meeting, which also saw
the passing of two board seats
and the election of a new presi-
dent.
The anticipated projects total
more than $59 million. While
approved at the meeting so that
projects can begin as soon as
possible, the “final authority to
proceed” will come when Colum-
bia Public Schools’ budget is
approved in June. Some of the
projects include security updates,
boiler replacements and construc-
tion for expansion projects at var-
ious schools, including $20 million
to the new middle school set to be
built in southwest Columbia.
The meeting also included
the unanimous passing of five
policies that touched on district
retirees, student fundraising
and the promotion, acceleration
and retention of students. The
board also approved an update to
the district’s background check
policy for current and former
employees, as well as some volun-
teers.
The newly updated policy
brings the district into com-
pliance with a state law. This
JULIA HANSEN/Missourian
requires the district to notify the
state retirement system if current
or former employees commit
certain crimes in relation to those
employees’ position with the
district, according to the official
policy update explanation.
Before the board’s regular
school student was sent to the principal’s meeting began, Helen Wade was
office for refusing to take off his hoodie. elected as president, Jonathan
The next day it was detention for talking Sessions as vice president, Heath-
in the locker rooms when he was sup- er McArthur as treasurer and
posed to keep quiet. And later that same Tracy Davenport as secretary in
afternoon he had a meeting with a juve- unanimous votes. Teresa Maledy
nile officer for an incident that happened and Susan Blackburn were elect-
weeks before.
ed as the two delegates for the
Schoen was worried. Missouri School Boards’ Associa-
Maybe not about the 50 minutes her
tion with Blake Willoughby serv-
son would spend in detention over two ing as the alternate.
days for a recent infraction, but about District Superintendent Peter
where he was headed. Since second Stiepleman swore in new board
grade, Trenton’s parents estimate he’s members Della Streaty-Wilhoit
been suspended as many as 10 times. and Blake Willoughby, who won
Please see SUSPENSION, page 4A seats in last Tuesday’s election.
Streaty-Wilhoit and Willoughby
Please see BOARD, page 3A

Bill would make it illegal to refuse unvaccinated children

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Abby7A
Classifieds5B JEFFERSON CITY — Angie
Nation8A James, a mom of three, said
she drives nearly 1½ hours
Obituaries2A
from Kirksville to Columbia to
Opinion6A
get to a doctor who will treat
Sports1B
her unvaccinated daughter.
Sudoku6B
James, with her three chil-
TV schedule 8B dren in tow, made an even lon-
ger drive to the state Capitol on
Our 111th year/#208 Monday to support a bill that
2 sections would change that.
16 pages House Bill 711, proposed
by state Rep. Lynn Morris,
R-Nexa, would make it illegal
for day cares, doctor’s offices,
schools and colleges to refuse
service to children who are not
6 54051 90850 3 vaccinated as long as they have
an exemption for medical or
religious reasons.
In the hearing room — jam-
packed with mostly moms in
support of the bill — Morris,
who is a pharmacist, said his
sponsoring of the bill is not an
anti-vaccine stance.
“I’m not against vaccines.
This is not about vaccines,”
Morris said. “I am for safe
vaccines, and I am for people
having the right to choose what
is done to their children.”
Morris says his bigger issue
with vaccines is the amount
that is required simultaneously.
“Six shots at one time is not
(a) safe vaccine. It’s a cocktail,”
he said.
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention rec-
ommends that children be
vaccinated. It states that com-
plications from vaccinations
are rare and nearly all children
can be safely vaccinated. Chil-
dren with allergies to some-
thing in a vaccine, or children
with weakened immune sys-
tems resulting from illness or
medical treatment like chemo-
therapy, are the exceptions.
Katie Blount, a pediatrician
with the Missouri Chapter of
the American Academy of
Pediatrics, opposes the pro-
posal.
“As pediatricians, our charge
is to take care of the children
and the community, so you
have to keep them as safe and
healthy as possible,” Blount
said. “And our concern is that
House Bill 711 would not be
aligned with that.”
James said she made the
choice to not vaccinate her
toddler after she said her two
sons suffered medical compli-
cations, including asthma and
speech delays. She believes
these are related to the vacci-
nations.
“Just being able to have that
informed consent instead of
my children being vaccinated
without my consent — that’s
an issue for me,” James said.
“I just want to be able to know
what is going into their bodies.”
Please see ANTI-VAX, page 3A