University of Missouri student arrested in bar shooting

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A University of Missouri student has been arrested in Texas in a shooting that wounded a man in a bar parking lot.

Twenty-one-year-old Miles Leighton Hillegas was arrested Wednesday in Ward County, Texas. He's charged with first-degree assault and two other felonies in the April 26 shooting outside the Black and Gold Tavern in Columbia, Missouri. He's awaiting extradition to Missouri, where he'll be booked on a $500,000 cash-only bond. No attorney is listed for him in online court records.

Columbia police wrote in court records that the victim got into a confrontation with...

 

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