Bond reduction hearing set for Friday in Columbia murder case
13th Judicial Circuit
Jeffrey McWilliams appears via video from the Boone County Jail at his first court appearance Wednesday, May 12, 2021.
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
The attorney for a man accused of taking part in a robbery that killed someone in 2017 wants a judge to give him the chance to post bond.
Stephen Wyse, the attorney for 28-year-old Jeffrey McWilliams, asked Judge Jeff Harris to set a $50,000 cash or surety bond in the case. Such a bond would allow McWilliams to pay 10 percent of it to be released from jail, as well as face several conditions to remain out of custody. McWilliams is currently held in the Boone County Jail without bond. A hearing is set for Friday at 9 a.m.
A bond reduction hearing has been set for Friday, May 21 at 9 a.m.
McWilliams attorney Stephen Wyse filed the motion on Wednesday. The motion requests that the bond be set at $50,000. Â
McWilliams was charged second degree murder, first degree robbery and armed criminal action. Authorities say in December 2017, McWilliams and two other individuals unlawfully entered a home on Lasso Court in Boone County and demanded money and property. Roberts was found with a gunshot wound and significant injuries to his face.
According to previous KOMU 8 reporting, police said the homicide involved a home invasion and drug use. Police later found a black pullover jacket with the victim s blood near a U-Haul packed with marijuana and THC vapor pens. DNA taken from the jacket was sent to the Missouri State Highway Patrol DNA Laboratory for analyzation. It came back as a match for McWilliam s DNA.
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Jeffrey McWilliams, 28, of Colombia, Missouri, was arrested on Tuesday, and he was also charged with first-degree robbery and armed criminal action in connection to the December 2017 murder of Augustus Roberts, according to Deadline.
McWilliams waived his arraignment in court on Wednesday and is being held without bail at the Boone County Jail. The judge granted a bond investigation, and a hearing is set for May 18.
McWilliams, who waived his arraignment in court on Wednesday, May 12, is currently remanded in custody at the Boone County Jail without bail. The judge presiding over his case granted a bond investigation and scheduled a hearing on May 18.
In July 2019, McWilliams appeared on Restaurant Impossible when host Robert Irvine gave his family s restaurant McLanks a revamp, saving the establishment from shutting down. According to Deadline, the eatery was later featured in an August 2020 episode of the spinoff Restaurant Impossible: Back in Business , in which Irvine helped restaurants save their businesses amid the ongoing health crisis.
McWilliams restaurant McLanks serves American comfort food and was founded by the suspect, his four siblings, and their mother Sheila Lankford. They opened their restaurant doors to customers in December 2017 ominously the same month Roberts was murdered.