On July 16, 2017, the quiet of an early Sunday morning in East Columbia, Missouri, was shattered by gunfire in what authorities later described as a targeted ambush. Jamar Lamont Hicks, a 26-year-old male, was riding in a vehicle with two friends near Trimble Road when unknown assailants opened fire on them. The sudden attack caused the vehicle to veer across the road, eventually coming to rest after striking a curb. Officers from the Columbia Police Department, who were nearby at an IHOP restau
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