No charges are filed in a fatal Columbia shootout

By John Marsh

Road rage reportedly caused Sunday afternoon’s deadly shooting at the McDonald’s on Columbia’s Nifong and prosecutors aren’t filing any charges. Office of Violence Prevention administrator D’Markus Thomas-Brown tells our news partner ABC-17 that the incident began as an altercation involving a traffic light and then continued across Nifong in the McDonald’s parking lot. Thomas-Brown says both people involved in the road rage incident were legal gun owners. Columbia Police say 32-year-old Derek Gonzalez was shot and killed Sunday.