{
  "id": "2025-09-26-university-of-missouri-residence-hall-strangulation",
  "slug": "university-of-missouri-residence-hall-strangulation-2025-09-26",
  "institution": {
    "name": "University of Missouri",
    "shortName": "Mizzou",
    "state": "MO",
    "type": "public-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "MU Alert",
    "alertPlatform": "Rave",
    "enrollment": 31000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2025-09-26",
    "endDate": "2025-10-29",
    "type": "domestic-violence",
    "cleryCategory": "advisory",
    "headline": "Barred From Campus: How Mizzou Responded After a Student Was Strangled Twice in Her Own Residence Hall Room",
    "summary": "A University of Missouri student was [strangled in her residence hall room on September 26, 2025 after blocking fellow student Maxwell Warren on Snapchat](https://www.kctv5.com/2025/11/06/mizzou-student-overland-park-accused-strangling-victim-after-being-blocked-snapchat/), then [strangled again on October 29, 2025 until she lost consciousness](https://abc17news.com/news/crime/2025/11/05/mu-student-accused-of-strangling-someone-at-residence-hall-after-getting-blocked-on-snapchat/) when Warren returned to her room. Warren was charged with domestic assault and burglary and, per a University of Missouri spokesperson, [\"barred from the University of Missouri campus, classes and other university activities\"](https://abc17news.com/news/crime/2025/11/05/mu-student-accused-of-strangling-someone-at-residence-hall-after-getting-blocked-on-snapchat/) once the case became public in early November 2025. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison in June 2026.",
    "resolution": "confirmed-threat",
    "outcome": "Maxwell Lucas Warren, 19, of Overland Park, Kansas, pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the case and was sentenced on June 26, 2026 to 10 years in prison for strangling the victim on campus on two separate occasions in 2025. He had a prior 2024 felony conviction for making a criminal threat.",
    "casualties": {
      "killed": 0,
      "injured": 1
    }
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "By early November 2025, once University of Missouri Police Department investigators substantiated the pattern of assaults",
      "channel": "unknown",
      "verbatimText": "University police substantiated that a fellow student forced his way into a residence-hall room on September 26, 2025 and strangled another student after being blocked on Snapchat, then returned to the same room on October 29, 2025 and strangled her again until she lost consciousness. No campus-wide notification was sent to the broader student body after either assault.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": false,
      "sourceDescription": "Reconstructed from the probable-cause statement as reported by ABC17 News, KCTV5, and the Columbia Missourian; not a quoted alert",
      "annotations": [
        "This entry documents the archive's negative space: a Clery-reportable, twice-repeated pattern of violence inside campus housing that produced no real-time alert to the wider Mizzou community, a shape similar to the University of Utah's Zhifan Dong case elsewhere in this archive",
        "Both assaults happened in the same residence hall room roughly five weeks apart, the second escalating to strangulation severe enough to cause the victim to lose consciousness, before the case became public",
        "Warren's charges (second-degree domestic assault, first-degree domestic assault, first-degree burglary, and misdemeanor fourth-degree assault) reflect Missouri's domestic-assault statute, which is not limited to spouses or cohabitants"
      ],
      "characterCount": 372
    },
    {
      "sequence": 2,
      "type": "follow-up",
      "timestampApprox": "Around November 5, 2025, once Warren's arrest and criminal charges became public",
      "channel": "unknown",
      "verbatimText": "Maxwell Warren is barred from the University of Missouri campus, classes and other university activities pending further investigation into allegations surrounding the criminal charges against him.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://abc17news.com/news/crime/2025/11/05/mu-student-accused-of-strangling-someone-at-residence-hall-after-getting-blocked-on-snapchat/",
      "sourceDescription": "University of Missouri spokesperson statement, quoted directly by ABC17 News",
      "annotations": [
        "This is the university's own defining public statement on the case: not a live emergency alert, but a retroactive administrative response confirming Warren's removal from campus once the charges became public in early November 2025",
        "The statement's careful phrasing ('pending further investigation') reflects that it was issued while the criminal case was still active, months before Warren's June 2026 guilty plea and sentencing",
        "MU Alert, the university's Rave-based mass-notification system, does not appear to have been used to notify the community of either assault or of Warren's campus ban; this statement was communicated to reporters rather than broadcast to students"
      ],
      "characterCount": 197
    }
  ],
  "context": "In the early fall of 2025, a University of Missouri student and Maxwell Lucas Warren, both residents of the same residence hall, had an interaction over Snapchat that the victim ended by blocking him. According to a probable-cause statement summarized by [ABC17 News](https://abc17news.com/news/crime/2025/11/05/mu-student-accused-of-strangling-someone-at-residence-hall-after-getting-blocked-on-snapchat/), Warren went to her room the same day, September 26, 2025, forced his way in, pushed her onto the bed, and strangled her. On October 29, 2025, Warren returned; when his advances were rebuffed again, he strangled her a second time until she lost consciousness, according to [KCTV5](https://www.kctv5.com/2025/11/06/mizzou-student-overland-park-accused-strangling-victim-after-being-blocked-snapchat/). The case did not become public until Warren was arrested and charged with domestic assault and burglary in early November 2025, at which point a University spokesperson confirmed he had been barred from campus. [Court records reviewed by ABC17 News](https://abc17news.com/news/crime/2025/11/25/university-of-missouri-strangling-suspect-had-criminal-history-before-coming-to-columbia/) showed Warren had a prior 2024 guilty plea to making a criminal threat, for which he received probation and a mental-health treatment order. Warren pleaded guilty and was [sentenced to 10 years in prison in June 2026](https://abc17news.com/news/crime/2026/06/29/former-mu-student-gets-10-years-in-residence-hall-strangling-case/). The case is notable for this archive as an example of a repeated, escalating domestic-violence pattern confined to a single dorm room that generated no real-time community alert, only an after-the-fact institutional statement once the criminal case became public.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "The victim was strangled twice in the same residence-hall room five weeks apart, the second time to unconsciousness, before Warren was arrested and the case became public",
    "No MU Alert or comparable real-time community notification appears to have been issued after either assault; the university's public response was a spokesperson statement confirming Warren's campus ban once the charges were reported",
    "Warren had a prior 2024 felony conviction for making a criminal threat, information that surfaced only in later court-record reporting rather than at the time of his admission to the residence hall",
    "Warren was sentenced to 10 years in prison in June 2026 after pleading guilty"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "MU student accused of strangling someone at residence hall after getting blocked on Snapchat (ABC17NEWS)",
      "url": "https://abc17news.com/news/crime/2025/11/05/mu-student-accused-of-strangling-someone-at-residence-hall-after-getting-blocked-on-snapchat/",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Mizzou student from Overland Park accused of strangling victim after being blocked on Snapchat (KCTV5)",
      "url": "https://www.kctv5.com/2025/11/06/mizzou-student-overland-park-accused-strangling-victim-after-being-blocked-snapchat/",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "University of Missouri strangling suspect had criminal history before coming to Columbia (ABC17NEWS)",
      "url": "https://abc17news.com/news/crime/2025/11/25/university-of-missouri-strangling-suspect-had-criminal-history-before-coming-to-columbia/",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Former MU student gets 10 years in residence hall strangling case (ABC17NEWS)",
      "url": "https://abc17news.com/news/crime/2026/06/29/former-mu-student-gets-10-years-in-residence-hall-strangling-case/",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Mizzou student arrested on burglary and domestic assault charges (Columbia Missourian)",
      "url": "https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/higher_education/mizzou-student-arrested-on-burglary-and-domestic-assault-charges/article_1f5a2dff-f20f-4806-976a-470120242f93.html",
      "type": "student-newspaper"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "medium",
  "tags": [
    "domestic-violence",
    "strangulation",
    "residence-hall",
    "missouri",
    "columbia",
    "notification-failure",
    "unsent-warning",
    "repeat-offender",
    "no-fatalities"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-07-03",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-03",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}