A 16-year-old has been charged in connection with the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Skylar Powell last month in midtown.

The Buchanan County Juvenile Court announced Wednesday that charges have been filed in connection with a death reported on May 18, 2016. A sixteen-year-old boy is being detained after being charged with a class A felony of murder in the second degree.

As we previously reported, Powell was found dead May 18 in a parking lot near 22nd and Frederick.

The next court hearing is scheduled for June 22, 2016, at 9:00 a.m. in Division 4.

Because it’s a juvenile case the court said it is unable to release the teen’s name or picture.

The St. Joseph Police Department has released the names of the individuals arrested on warrants after a more than 4-hour long standoff.

Capt. Jeff Wilson said both 45-year-old Kimberly Edwards and 24-year-old Anthony Edwards are in custody on active felony warrants after a standoff Tuesday on Linn St.

As we previously reported, police surrounded a home on the northwest corner of Linn after police said they received anonymous information regarding the possibility of a domestic disturbance involving a firearm.  Officers ended up taking the pair into custody shortly after 5:30 p.m.

“After obtaining the search warrant we took out the front window of the residence and we could obtain a view in there and established communication soon thereafter.  Two people voluntarily came out of the residence peacefully,” Wilson said previously.

Several roads in the area were shutdown while authorities were on scene and several homes next to the surrounded house were evacuated as a precaution.

(Update 5:49 p.m.) – A more than 4-hour long standoff at a home on the north side of St. Joseph ended without injury Tuesday evening.

“We responded on a call of somewhat of a domestic disturbance.  The information was very limited at the time but it did involve that there may be a couple of people in there and one may have been armed with a handgun,” Capt. Jeff Wilson with the St. Joseph Police Department said. “Throughout the course of the day detectives did an investigation and it turned out that they developed information that there was a couple of people in there and that they did have active felony warrant for their arrest.”

As we previously reported, officers surrounded a home on the northwest corner of Linn.  Homes around that house were evacuated as a precaution and roads were closed off in the area.

“We began to try to make contact with them.  We didn’t receive any contact back,” Capt. Wilson said. “After obtaining the search warrant we took out the front window of the residence and we could obtain a view in there and established communication soon thereafter.  Two people voluntarily came out of the residence peacefully.”

A 45-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man were arrested on warrants shortly after 5:30 p.m.

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(Update 5 p.m.) – An anonymous tip led the St. Joseph Police Department to surround a home and shut down several roads on the north end of town.

St. Joseph Post’s Rob Horning was on scene at 2:55 p.m. and said he had a chance to speak with Capt. Jeff Wilson.

“Right now they’re taking precautionary measures.  They’re preparing themselves in case they have to go into the house,” Horning reported. “This originally started with some anonymous information that was communicated to them.  They’re not even sure there’s anybody at the house or if there’s anybody there.  They haven’t been able to make any contact.”

The initial report indicated the possibility of a man with a gun in the house located on the northwest corner of Linn and Prospect but shortly before 3 p.m. police said none of that has been confirmed.

Houses around the surrounded home have been evacuated as a precaution.

“We’re getting people around the area to safe areas,” Wilson said. “We haven’t even been able to confirm that there is anybody in there with a weapon.”

Roads are blocked of at Prospect and West Chestnut, Prospect at Cherry and Dewey at Linn.

As of 5 p.m. police were still on scene.

 

Local entrepreneurs will manage their own stores after completing a program through Missouri Western State University’s Craig School of Business.

Pam Klaus is the Director of Franchise Programs at the Craig School of Business. She said students complete a semester long class where they prepare a business plan on a “study store.” They present the business plan to a panel of judges for the opportunity to be awarded a store. 

“This semester this particular class compiles everything they’ve learned throughout their college career and it pulls it all together into this business plan,” Klaus said. “So they’re using marketing, management, their financials, accounting – all those classes they’re pulling together to use in their business plan. From that point it becomes no longer a classroom project. Once they compete and are awarded a store, they will relocate and operate franchises and they own and operate them so it’s very much real world at that point.” 

The most recent competition was held on May 13th and Katie Parra and Stephanie Tripp were awarded stores through the program. Parra, a recent graduate, will relocate to Wheaton, Illinois, and purchase a yogurt store. Tripp, a 2012 graduate of Missouri Western, will own an Auntie Anne’s franchise in the East Hills Shopping Center with construction and opening dates to be determined. According to Klaus, the program is open to current and past students. 

When graduates begin their small business venture through the program, initial capital is provided for the store, which the graduate pays back over time. 

The program was founded by Steve Craig, benefactor of the Craig School of Business, by Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory and by Missouri Western. According to Klaus, through the program, the first store was awarded in 2009 and currently there are 23 stores in 11 states. 

Klaus said the goal of the program is to give students their first opportunity in business and to have them grow and progress. 

“I love working with the students, I love the opportunity that this affords our graduates,” Klaus said. “Right here in St. Joe we have this incredible opportunity that’s unique from any other part of the country.” 

For more information on the Craig School of Business, go to the Missouri Western State University website. 

A man is in custody after an almost seven hour standoff with police Monday night. 

According to the St. Joseph Police Department, officers surrounded a house in the West Hyde Park Avenue area Monday afternoon.   Capt. Jeff Wilson said the Special Response Team was called in to assist around 8:23 p.m.  Police said a suspect believed to be driving a stolen vehicle had fled and locked himself inside the garage of the house. 

Police believed the suspect was armed. Around 11 p.m., the man surrendered willfully and was taken into custody. 

Capt. Wilson said no shots were fired and the man is being held on several active warrants.

 

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. – The bridge on Cook Road over Interstate 29 will close this week for maintenance.

Crews from the Missouri Department of Transportation will close Cook Road at the I-29 overpass at approximately 8 a.m. on Tuesday, May 31. The road will remain closed until approximately 7 a.m. Friday, June 3. All work and schedules are weather permitting.

For more information on this and other MoDOT projects, call 1-888-ASK-MODOT (888-275-6636) or view the online Traveler Information Map.