(KMIZ)State lawmakers are reacting to the outpouring response by local leaders and community organizations following a deadly downtown Columbia shooting over the University of Missouri's Homecoming weekend. Columbia police responded to a shooting in the 800 block of East Broadway just before 2 a.m. Saturday. Mike Kehoe into conversations of crime prevention in the downtown Columbia and campus areas. Columbia Mayor Barbara Buffaloe then listed actions the city government and Columbia Police Department have taken and wrote she would form a taskforce for crime downtown. Schlude said her department is prioritizing downtown crime efforts and focusing on reestablishing a unit focused on crime in that area, set to be implemented by summer 2026.