Man acquitted in Columbia slaying

Sunday, February 5, 2012

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A jury has acquitted a 28-year-old Columbia man in the shooting death of a Missouri football player’s cousin.

The Columbia Daily Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/wBawgT) that the sequestered Platte County jury found Tony Lewis innocent Saturday, on day six of the trial in Boone County Circuit Court. Lewis was the last of eight co-defendants to face charges in the 2010 death of Aaron Hobson, of Wichita, Kan.

Hobson was visiting Columbia in October 2010 to watch his cousin, Trey Hobson, play in a Missouri game. Hobson was meeting friends at a convenience store when he was robbed and shot.

Daron Peal has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for shooting Hobson.

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kentheco 1 year, 3 months ago

A man was attacked and killed at a convenience store in Columbia. To the victim’s family that is what mattered, to the newspaper the fact he was a cousin of a football player appears to be important. If he had simply been “Joe Blow” with no connection to football, would it have made a difference, I don’t think the family of the victim would agree, do you?

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