Residents, businesses react to recent public violence as police continue search for a motive in Dick's Sporting Goods shooting

Residents, businesses react to recent public violence as police continue search for a motive in Dick's Sporting Goods shooting

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Sheridan Beardshear was closing her store on the west side of Columbia as usual around 7 p.m. Saturday night. She did the normal closing procedures in the back of the store, when she heard what she originally believed was a car backfiring. She walked outside of the store and was greeted by a barrage of police vehicles, sirens and fire trucks and quickly realized what she was seeing was bigger than what she thought. "I though…