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Five people were shot in three different incidents in Columbia this weekend. A man was shot on Columbia's McGuire Boulevard during a Friday evening argument and suffered minor injuries. A man and woman were shot in Cosmo park late Saturday night during a large party, and two men were shot early Sunday morning in downtown Columbia, just blocks from CPD. Columbia's first-ever Office of Violence Prevention administrator D'Markus Thomas-Brown joined us live on 939 the Eagle's "Wake Up Missouri" this morning. Mr. Thomas-Brown tells listeners that we need community transformation. He says he's saddened by this weekend's violence, calling it tragic. Mr. Thomas-Brown also tells listeners that we need unity and bipartisan fixes to the violence. He says Republicans and Democrats have great ideas to bring to the table: