COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man allegedly involved in a Boone County shooting was arrested Wednesday evening following a high-speed chase. Javion Lawhorn, 35, was charged on Thursday with aggravated fleeing.
He is being held at the Boone County Jail without bond. A court date has not been set. According to court documents, Lawhorn was pulled over by police in a McDonald's parking lot after failing to stop at a red light while turning onto Clark Lane.
While the officer was walking toward Lawhorn, he allegedly put his car into drive and peeled out, initiating a high-speed chase. The chase lasted several miles with officers alleging that he was driving 137 miles per hour before Boone County deputies spiked Lawhorn’s car, which caused him to crash into a tree. Lawhorn then got out of his car and began to run away from deputies before being caught in the woods, according to the probable cause statement.
Shaunda Hamilton was sitting in her car Thursday afternoon when her phone began ringing. The person on the other end wanted to know if Hamilton had heard that Lawhorn had been arrested. "[I was] just very emotional when I heard the news," Hamilton told ABC 17 News.
Lawhorn served roughly three years in prison for his involvement in a shooting that killed Hamilton’s 18-year-old daughter Nadria Wright and injured Sam Baldwin IV in September 2019. Lawhron was seen driving a white Mercedes the night of the shooting, the same type of car he was driving Wednesday night. He was se.