Kobe Aust, Joseph Crane, Alexis Bauman and a juvenile are four alleged teen killers who have been charged with the murder of Ryan Burke
According to police reports the four teen killers set up a meet through Facebook Marketplace in order to buy an iPhone. However when Kobe Aust, Joseph Crane, Alexis Bauman and the unnamed juvenile had no intention of purchasing the phone
Once the four teens showed up at Ryan Burke home the juvenile and Joseph Crane would enter the home and soon after gunshots would ring out
Alexis Bauman who drove the group to the home would tell police that Joseph Crane and the juvenile would admit to fatally shooting Ryan Burke and taking the phone
The group would later sell the phone
Now Kobe Aust, Joseph Crane , Alexis Bauman and the juvenile have been arrested and charged with murder
Ryan Burke News
One woman, two men and a male juvenile have been arrested in connection with a shooting death that happened Sunday in the Stadium-Forum Boulevard area in Columbia, according to a Columbia Police Department news release.
The Sunday night shooting left 42-year-old Michael Ryan Burke, of Columbia, with injuries that he later died from at a local hospital, according to the Police Department.
The four people who were arrested are suspected of stealing iPhones from people during Facebook Marketplace sales and selling the phones, according to a probable cause statement.
The suspects allegedly stole iPhones from multiple people in the arranged sales, according to court documents. The juvenile suspect allegedly shot Burke during one of these incidents, according to a probable cause statement.
The other three suspects, identified as 18-year-olds Alexis Baumann, Kobe Aust and Joseph Crane, were allegedly in the vehicle that fled the scene of the shooting, according to the probable cause statement.
Baumann allegedly admitted to investigators that she heard three gunshots from inside of the residence, according to the statement. The juvenile suspect allegedly ran out of the residence and the suspects drove away from the scene, according to the statement.
The juvenile has been arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder, armed criminal action, first-degree robbery, first-degree burglary and unlawful use of a weapon, according to the Columbia Police Department.
Baumann, Aust and Crane have been charged with second-degree felony murder, two counts of armed criminal action and first-degree robbery, according to court records.
Columbia police detectives used Ring doorbell footage and Flock Safety cameras to identify and locate the suspects, according to court documents.
Columbia police detectives were able to locate one stolen iPhone after a suspect allegedly sold the iPhone at an ecoATM machine at Walmart on Conley Road, according to court documents.
The incident is still under investigation, according to the Police Department.
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