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05-12-2011, 09:28 PM
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http://www.ky3.com/news/ky3-missouri-st-campus-in-rolla-mo-in-lockdown-20110512,0,4518611.story
by Jay Scherder, Mike Landis, and others, KY3 News newsalerts@ky3.com 6:02 p.m. CDT, May 12, 2011
ROLLA, Mo. -- State troopers arrested a man who is believed to be the one who entered Fort Leonard Wood with an assault rifle, fled to Rolla at speeds in excess of 120 miles per hour in a stolen car while shooting at pursuing officers, crashed the car into another car near Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, walked through a university campus building with the rifle, and then broke into a home and stole a car from the person living there. Within hours of his arrest, Cody Willcoxson of Southwest City was charged in two counties and jailed in lieu of two $1 million bonds.
The arrest was on U.S. 63 about 15 miles south of Rolla, about a mile south of Phelps County Road 6030, near the community of Yancey Mills. A state trooper spotted the suspect in the second stolen car and briefly pursued it southward on U.S. 63. A Highway Patrol helicopter was in the air over the arrest scene.
Willcoxson stopped the car and surrendered. Other officers quickly converged on the scene. Video of the arrest appears to show that Willcoxson's shorts had blood on them.
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The suspect was shot in a hand sometime during the day and an ambulance was sent to the arrest scene. The car was cordoned off next to the highway and treated as a crime scene as investigators gathered evidence.
A state trooper said Willcoxson ended up at the Phelps County Sheriff's Department in Rolla after he was treated for his wounds. A Highway Patrol spokeswoman said about 150 officers from various agencies were involved with the chase and the subsequent manhunt.
Willcoxson is charged in Phelps County with two counts of assaulting a law enforcement officer and two counts of armed criminal action. He's charged in Pulaski County with assaulting a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest, armed criminal action, property damage and driving without a valid license. Judges in both counties set bonds of $1 million.
Pulaski County Prosecuting Attorney Kevin Hillman said Willcoxson would face federal charges for going onto Fort Leonard Wood. No federal charges appeared to have been filed on Thursday, however, according to online records of the U.S. District of Western Missouri.
Missouri S&T University (http://www.mst.edu/) went on a lockdown just before 9 a.m. Thursday after a report that a man with a gun was on campus in McNutt Hall, a building in the mining department. A text alert was sent out and a message was posted on S&T's website.
Law enforcement officers later said no shots were fired on campus but some shots were fired near campus. Few students were on campus because the winter semester is ending this week. Willcoxson encountered one graduate student in a hallway but apparently didn't threaten him.
Law enforcement officers chased the man to Rolla from Fort Leonard Wood, and he shot at officers during the pursuit. One pursuing officer said Willcoxson shot numerous rounds from the driver's side window, from the moon roof and through the back glass. During the pursuit, the St. Robert police chief's car was hit with bullets twice, disabling the patrol car.
An officer tried to stop the car with spike strips near Rolla. One tire of the car being chased ran over the spike strip. and it exited the interstate at the westernmost Rolla exit (Interstate 44's exit 184) with officers still in pursuit.
Rolla Police Chief Mark Kearse says the man shot at police and sheriff's deputies in Rolla as he drove through several areas of the city. He crashed the stolen vehicle into a civilian vehicle at an intersection, but that didn't stop him.
He sped off, according to a probable cause statement used as the basis of some of the charges, and eventually tried to go down a road not accessible to vehicles. He hit a barrier, lost control, spun around, and skidded to a stop. He got out and walked through McNutt Hall, a university classroom building, with a rifle.
Officers cleared that building and set up a perimeter around it, but the man had already left. Officers did find the rifle under a pickup.
Kearse says the man broke into a home in the 1000 block of Crinoidal Court, demanded keys to a vehicle, and then drove away in a second stolen vehicle.
Kearse said, at one point, he had the man in his sights and could have shot at him, but the man was near a school building and the chief thought there was a risk that a student could have been hit if he'd fired.
Late morning, law enforcement officers confirmed they were looking for Willcoxson (http://docapp065p.doc.state.ok.us/servlet/page?_pageid=394&_dad=portal30&_schema=PORTAL30&doc_num=489109&offender_book_id=286241), 31, who has served time in prison in Oklahoma. In some instances, he's spelled his last name Wilcoxson.
Online records show Willcoxson has convictions for assisting the escape of a prisoner, two counts of escape from a county jail, two counts of second-degree burglary, and another count of escape. The records show his concurrent prison sentences started on Dec. 15, 2004, and ended on May 27, 2008.
Jeff Maddy, a spokesman for Fort Leonard Wood, says Willcoxson tried to enter the post on Thursday morning at the west gate.
"A civilian policeman at the gate told the driver to pull over and submit to further inspection," a news release from Fort Leonard Wood said. "The driver did not comply and continued driving through the west gate toward post at a high rate of speed and was pursued by Military Police through a section of the post. The driver exited the installation through the main gate at a high rate of speed. The individual was on the installation for less than three minutes.
"The St. Robert Police Department was alerted and pursued the individual, who drove down Missouri Avenue at a high rate of speed."
http://www.ky3.com/news/ky3-missouri-st-campus-in-rolla-mo-in-lockdown-20110512,0,4518611.story
by Jay Scherder, Mike Landis, and others, KY3 News newsalerts@ky3.com 6:02 p.m. CDT, May 12, 2011
ROLLA, Mo. -- State troopers arrested a man who is believed to be the one who entered Fort Leonard Wood with an assault rifle, fled to Rolla at speeds in excess of 120 miles per hour in a stolen car while shooting at pursuing officers, crashed the car into another car near Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla, walked through a university campus building with the rifle, and then broke into a home and stole a car from the person living there. Within hours of his arrest, Cody Willcoxson of Southwest City was charged in two counties and jailed in lieu of two $1 million bonds.
The arrest was on U.S. 63 about 15 miles south of Rolla, about a mile south of Phelps County Road 6030, near the community of Yancey Mills. A state trooper spotted the suspect in the second stolen car and briefly pursued it southward on U.S. 63. A Highway Patrol helicopter was in the air over the arrest scene.
Willcoxson stopped the car and surrendered. Other officers quickly converged on the scene. Video of the arrest appears to show that Willcoxson's shorts had blood on them.
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The suspect was shot in a hand sometime during the day and an ambulance was sent to the arrest scene. The car was cordoned off next to the highway and treated as a crime scene as investigators gathered evidence.
A state trooper said Willcoxson ended up at the Phelps County Sheriff's Department in Rolla after he was treated for his wounds. A Highway Patrol spokeswoman said about 150 officers from various agencies were involved with the chase and the subsequent manhunt.
Willcoxson is charged in Phelps County with two counts of assaulting a law enforcement officer and two counts of armed criminal action. He's charged in Pulaski County with assaulting a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest, armed criminal action, property damage and driving without a valid license. Judges in both counties set bonds of $1 million.
Pulaski County Prosecuting Attorney Kevin Hillman said Willcoxson would face federal charges for going onto Fort Leonard Wood. No federal charges appeared to have been filed on Thursday, however, according to online records of the U.S. District of Western Missouri.
Missouri S&T University (http://www.mst.edu/) went on a lockdown just before 9 a.m. Thursday after a report that a man with a gun was on campus in McNutt Hall, a building in the mining department. A text alert was sent out and a message was posted on S&T's website.
Law enforcement officers later said no shots were fired on campus but some shots were fired near campus. Few students were on campus because the winter semester is ending this week. Willcoxson encountered one graduate student in a hallway but apparently didn't threaten him.
Law enforcement officers chased the man to Rolla from Fort Leonard Wood, and he shot at officers during the pursuit. One pursuing officer said Willcoxson shot numerous rounds from the driver's side window, from the moon roof and through the back glass. During the pursuit, the St. Robert police chief's car was hit with bullets twice, disabling the patrol car.
An officer tried to stop the car with spike strips near Rolla. One tire of the car being chased ran over the spike strip. and it exited the interstate at the westernmost Rolla exit (Interstate 44's exit 184) with officers still in pursuit.
Rolla Police Chief Mark Kearse says the man shot at police and sheriff's deputies in Rolla as he drove through several areas of the city. He crashed the stolen vehicle into a civilian vehicle at an intersection, but that didn't stop him.
He sped off, according to a probable cause statement used as the basis of some of the charges, and eventually tried to go down a road not accessible to vehicles. He hit a barrier, lost control, spun around, and skidded to a stop. He got out and walked through McNutt Hall, a university classroom building, with a rifle.
Officers cleared that building and set up a perimeter around it, but the man had already left. Officers did find the rifle under a pickup.
Kearse says the man broke into a home in the 1000 block of Crinoidal Court, demanded keys to a vehicle, and then drove away in a second stolen vehicle.
Kearse said, at one point, he had the man in his sights and could have shot at him, but the man was near a school building and the chief thought there was a risk that a student could have been hit if he'd fired.
Late morning, law enforcement officers confirmed they were looking for Willcoxson (http://docapp065p.doc.state.ok.us/servlet/page?_pageid=394&_dad=portal30&_schema=PORTAL30&doc_num=489109&offender_book_id=286241), 31, who has served time in prison in Oklahoma. In some instances, he's spelled his last name Wilcoxson.
Online records show Willcoxson has convictions for assisting the escape of a prisoner, two counts of escape from a county jail, two counts of second-degree burglary, and another count of escape. The records show his concurrent prison sentences started on Dec. 15, 2004, and ended on May 27, 2008.
Jeff Maddy, a spokesman for Fort Leonard Wood, says Willcoxson tried to enter the post on Thursday morning at the west gate.
"A civilian policeman at the gate told the driver to pull over and submit to further inspection," a news release from Fort Leonard Wood said. "The driver did not comply and continued driving through the west gate toward post at a high rate of speed and was pursued by Military Police through a section of the post. The driver exited the installation through the main gate at a high rate of speed. The individual was on the installation for less than three minutes.
"The St. Robert Police Department was alerted and pursued the individual, who drove down Missouri Avenue at a high rate of speed."