A motion hearing has been set for 1:30 p.m. on Today, in Boone County Court, for 16-year-old Samiyon Myers, of Columbia.
A motion was filed on Friday seeking to move the teenager accused in a January 2025 Columbia shooting to the Boone County Jail.
Myers is currently charged with first-degree assault, delivery of a controlled substance, two counts of armed criminal action, two counts of unlawful use of a weapon, one count of shooting at a car and second-degree drug trafficking.
Myers is accused of a January 2025 shooting in the 2100 block of West Worley Street. Court documents showed six juveniles were taken into custody, with half of the juveniles released to their parents.
Video allegedly showed Myers firing the gun at a vehicle.
Friday’s motion comes after several incidents in juvie, which included assaults, verbal threats and alleged demands to be transferred to the jail.