Columbia leaders walked downtown over the weekend to see the community’s reaction after a deadly shooting, with Boone County Prosecutor Roger Johnson noting extra police presence has had an impact.

“We convened and met and walked around downtown with some of the business leaders and talked to some business owners who were out this particular weekend,” said Johnson. “The crowds cleared out really fairly quickly, I’d say by about 1:45 or even 1:30. The downtown was mostly cleared out of people who had gone out to the bars.”

Johnson told Missourinet about how local and federal agencies are working together to confront violent crime in the city.

“And we would meet and share intelligence and discuss people that were presenting a public safety risk,” said Johnson. “So, our goal was to try to

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