COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The Boone County Sheriff’s Department has identified two shooting victims and a man who was shot to death by a sheriff’s deputy during the weekend.

The department says in a news release that 53-year-old Deborah Koontz and her 51-year-old brother, Donald Wilson, were shot to death Saturday night near Columbia. A third man, 44-year-old Willie Mays, was hospitalized with a gunshot wound.

The suspect in the shootings, 28-year-old Cornelius Parker, was pursued by Boone County deputies. Boone County authorities Parker died after he got out of his vehicle and exchanged gunfire with a deputy.

Parker lived with the three victims but investigators are still trying to determine a motive for the shooting.

The 32-year-old deputy involved in shooting has over 11 years in law enforcement.

SPRINGFIELD (AP) – A judge dismissed a case against a Saudi national who was accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman in Springfield two years ago.

The Springfield News-Leader reported Greene County Circuit Judge Mark Powell last week dismissed the case against 22-year-old Rayan Alqabbaa.

Alqabbaa and Ahmed Alanazi, who were Missouri State University students, were accused in 2003 of dragging a woman from a nightclub and sexually assaulting her at an apartment. Alanazi was found not guilty in a bench trial in August.

The judge who found Alanazi not guilty said the woman believed something happened to her but she was too intoxicated to remember and her story changed several times.

Alqabbaa remained in the U.S. for schooling but Alanazi has returned to Saudi Arabia.

KANSAS CITY (AP) – A spokesman of the Kansas City Aviation Department said one person has minor injuries after a small plane experienced a hard landing at a Kansas City airport.

Spokesman Joe McBride said one of the aircraft’s two occupants suffered a broken arm Sunday night.

He said the plane, which took off from an airport near Mosby, went down on the north side of the Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport.

McBride said the aircraft had flown over the Country Club Plaza before its pilot flew to the Wheeler airport and practiced a “touch and go” landing.

He said the plane soon lost power and came down at the airport.

Although the plane’s landing gear is damaged, McBride said the plane didn’t turn over.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A Springfield man is accused of throwing a rock that shattered a patrol car’s windshield and then kicking a police officer during an arrest.

The Springfield News-Leader reported 32-year-old Jason Alexander is charged with assaulting a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest and property damage.

According to a probable cause statement, officers found Alexander intoxicated in a parking garage Feb. 12 in downtown Springfield and told him to leave. Alexander initially refused to leave, but later left. As officers were leaving in their patrol car, Alexander threw two large rocks, with one breaking the windshield.

The statement says Alexander resisted arrest by kicking and punching an officer. He was booked into Greene County Jail on a $7,500 bond. It wasn’t immediately known if he has an attorney.

KANSAS CITY (AP) – Kansas City police have connected the fatal shootings of two men who were found less than a mile apart.

Police identified the victims as Calvin Watson and Daniel Conner, both 21 years old and from Kansas City. Police said in a news release that the first victim was found dead around 8:20 p.m. Friday. An officer then found a second victim who died at an area hospital.

Police are asking anyone with information to come forward.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Officials say construction on Kansas City’s downtown streetcar project is nearly 50 percent complete and is on track to finish this fall.

But the vehicles will undergo months of testing before passengers can start boarding. It’s likely the streetcars won’t be open to the public until early 2016.

The Kansas City Star reports several small businesses say water and sewer work related to the construction project has inconvenienced customers for nine months, affecting their bottom line.

However, the executive director of the Kansas City Streetcar Authority and a spokeswoman of the Kansas City Streetcar Constructors say crews have worked hard to keep the impact of construction work minimal. They say the most disruptive street work is nearly finished.

NEVADA (AP) – A boy has died after falling through an ice-covered farm pond in southern Missouri.

Capt. Kevin Scott, with the Nevada Fire Department, says emergency crews rushed to the scene Saturday morning after a caller said three children were in the pond northwest of Nevada. The Joplin Globe reports that a bystander pulled one boy from the pond, and another boy was able to get out on his own.

Vernon County Sheriff Jason Mosher says divers recovered the third child about an hour and a half after dispatchers were contacted. The boy was rushed to Nevada Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. The child’s name wasn’t immediately released.

Mosher says one of the surviving children was listed in stable condition, and the other was treated and released.

LEBANON, Mo. (AP) — Two people are dead after a driver lost control on a snow-covered highway in southern Missouri.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol said the out-of-control car skidded into a tractor-trailer that was stopped Saturday afternoon because of an earlier crash on Interstate 44.

The 20-year-old Fort Leonard Wood man who was driving the car survived with minor injuries, but both passengers were ejected and killed. The patrol identified the victims as 24-year-old Eduardo Contreras of Wichita, Kansas, and Cesar Hernandez of Los Angeles.

The Missouri Department of Transportation says it has been working to clear wreckage from another I-44 pileup that happened Saturday when a tractor-trailer crashed into the rear of a Greyhound bus.

The department says it could take most of Sunday before both westbound lanes can be reopened.