31-year-old charged in shooting

Originally published April 6, 2011 at 12:12 p.m., updated April 6, 2011 at 11:59 p.m.

The Cole County Prosecutor’s Office charged a 31-year-old Jefferson City man Wednesday in connection with a Tuesday night shooting at a business on Clark Avenue.

Corey Thames has been charged with armed criminal action, first-degree assault and felon in possession of a firearm in the assault of Jeremy Tisdel, 39, of Jefferson City.

According to a Jefferson City Police Department probable cause statement, the incident occurred at the Break Time convenience store, 627 Clark St., around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Thames was seated in a vehicle on the store parking lot when he was approached by the victim, Jeremy Tisdel, 39, Jefferson City.

An argument broke out between the two men, and Tisdel struck Thames in the face.

Thames retrieved a weapon from the vehicle’s glove box, loaded the weapon, exited the vehicle and shot Tisdel three times.

Thames fled from the scene and was arrested a short time later.

Tisdel was hospitalized for what were believed to be serious, but non-life-threatening injuries.

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wcywing 2 years, 1 month ago

i hope they put this guy away for a long time. JC does not need this nonsense. it used to be a quiet town.

omgosh101 2 years, 1 month ago

Why is it so hard to get a story right...breaking news and NT already has the victim's name wrong...praying for Tisdale family..With God all things are possible

JMO 2 years, 1 month ago

Are you sure they have the name wrong? Because I find both Jeremy Tisdel and Jeremy Tisdale in JC when I search the internet.

wcywing 2 years, 1 month ago

i hope he gets better, no matter how is name is spelled. as for the suspect, if found guilty, i hope he serves some hard time.

this is definitely a tragic thing that has happened, and weirdly this is happening in jeff city. another shooting in the past month? Crazy, but these things do happen, maybe not in Jeff but people shouldn't be fearful. At least you're not living in LA or Chitown, then you'd really be terrified. I've been here since Oct, and I definitely dont feel threatened. Hope they solve this case soon for the families specially.

JCLifer 2 years, 1 month ago

The problem is that the city does not take care of infrastructure around LU and on the east side like it does in the west side of town.

Dunklin Street has been a rough-riding broken up concrete street for years, but the city refused to resurface it. Many of the streets are in bad shape on the east side, and lack sidewalks, and even curb and guttering is missing on several thoroufares like Ellis Blvd and East McCarty street

Also, building codes for the area's housing and other structures are not enforced. The city lets owners get by with piling trash, old cars, etc. in front yards, and houses are allowed to deteriorate and not be repaired. Peeling paint, tall weeds, and broken sidewalks are everywhere. The city would never allow such conditions in west side neighborhoods, but it is OK for the east side to look like a ghetto.

Even the city parking lot has tall weeds growing in it next to the little park on East Miller, and the city doesn't clean up its own blight around the sheds and other structures.

wcywing 2 years, 1 month ago

very true. if JC would actually enforce its own rules equally, things might change. seems like JC is two towns in one. westside (the haves) and eastside (the have nots). people should clean up their area, and the city should do its part. if only some of my neighbors clean up the front yard.

that being said, i feel for the victim's family, and wish him a speedy recovery. i don't know if all the criminals come from st. louis or kc, but the nonsense needs to stop. good job of the police catching the suspect.

3blindmice 2 years, 1 month ago

The reason it looks like a slum is because more than 40% of the housing are rentals owned by slum landlords, and jefferson city loves to protect their slum lords

wcywing 2 years, 1 month ago

what was i thinking?! JC wants to protect slumlords and only enforce laws and ordinances on some of the people some of the time, but not enforce all the laws on all the people, all the time.

JCLifer 2 years, 1 month ago

Wonder how many councilpersons, mayor, or owners of the banks are landlords and don't want to have these building codes enforced?

kentheco 1 year, 4 months ago

What does this have to do with the shooting. Where I live, I pick up the trash, why should the city, it didn't put it there. Check the public housing areas in Jeff City. Who put the trash on the ground? The city provides trash recepticles, why don't the residents use them? Apathy or laziness?

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