Semaj Harris.

It was a “botched” drug deal.

Many such cases when blacks are involved.

KMIZ:

Prosecutors have filed murder charges against a Jefferson City man for a second time in connection with a 2018 killing.

Cole County Prosecuting Attorney Locke Thompson on Tuesday charged Semaj Harris with several felonies including second-degree murder. He also charged Harris with accessory to delivery of a controlled substance, armed criminal action, illegal gun possession and accessory to tampering with physical evidence.

Each charge is a felony.

Harris pleaded guilty in May in connection with the death of 19-year-old Nilez Nichols during what police have called a botched drug deal. A judge sentenced him to five years in prison.

Thompson said at the time that Harris agreed to cooperate in the investigation into co-defendant Bruce Thomas. Thomas pleaded guilty last week to first-degree robbery after being charged initially with second-degree murder.

Nilez Nichols.

Semaj Harris.

It’s difficult to work out what happened here, but the lesson remains clear: avoid the groid, even if you’re a drug addict.

There isn’t a single scenario in the world where adding blacks to something makes it better or safer.

ABC 17:

A Jefferson City man was charged on Monday, accused of being involved in a drug deal that resulted in the death of Nilez R. Nichols on Nov. 19.

Semaj L. Harris, 20, was charged with second-degree murder and first-degree burglary. Harris is being held at the Cole County Jail on a $100,000 cash bond.

Officers were sent a little after 6 p.m. on Nov. 19 to the 1900 block of Stadium Boulevard after getting several calls that a person had been shot. Police found a 19-year-old Nichols of Jefferson City dead from a gunshot wound inside a home, the Jefferson City Police Department said in a news release.

Harris told investigators that he went to the 1900 block of Stadium with two other people to get marijuana, a Jefferson City Police Department detective wrote in a probable cause statement. Harris forced open the door of a residence while an unnamed “co-defendant” was in a struggle for a gun inside, the statement said. Harris was identified by a witness, according to the statement.

Police say Harris pointed a gun at the witness and told him to stop fighting. Nichols chased Harris and his companions after they left the home, according to the statement. He was shot on the sidewalk outside the home and collapsed after going back inside, but the probable cause statement did not say whether Harris was the shooter.

Nilez Nichols.

Yet another crime caused by intergenerational trauma from the Crusades.

These blacks need to be healed, not imprisoned.

ABC 17:

Jefferson City police are looking for suspects in two separate shootings, one of them fatal.

Officers were sent a little after 6 p.m. Monday to the 1900 block of Stadium Boulevard after getting several calls that a person had been shot.

“Witnesses and callers reported multiple gunshots. We’re still trying to find out how many people were involved and how many weapons,” Jefferson City Police Department Lt. David Williams said.

Police found a 19-year-old Jefferson City man dead from a gunshot wound inside a home, the department said in a news release. The department later identified him as Nilez R. Nichols.

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Witnesses described three men leaving the scene after the shooting, police said, but they had no detailed description of the men. Officers canvassed the area but could not find them, the department said.

“Some of the witnesses say they saw three black male subjects running from the area, immediately after the gunshots. Right now, we’re trying to identify those people and see what their involvement was,” Williams said.

Nilez Nichols.