Murder charge filed in weekend killing of Bloomfield man

MALDEN, Mo. -- Floyd Mantel Young Jr. has been charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in connection with a shooting earlier this month.

Young, 22, is accused of having "knowingly caused serious physical injury to Dustin Greer by shooting him" with a deadly weapon, according to a complaint filed in the case.

Officers responding to reports of gunshots and a loud crash found Greer, of Bloomfield, Missouri, slumped over the steering wheel of a vehicle in an alley near the 400 block of North Edwards Street in Malden.

Young appeared in court Tuesday and waived his right to a formal arraignment.

His hearing was reset until 11 a.m. Aug. 11 at the 35th Judicial District Circuit Court in Kennett, Missouri.

Young is being held without bond, and a probable-cause statement was not released by the prosecutor's office because the investigation is ongoing.

At the time Young was charged, he was on supervised probation.

Young pleaded guilty in March 2013 to felony second-degree burglary in Cape Girardeau County, according to online court records.

The judge suspended Young's sentence and placed him on five years of supervised probation.

Young previously had pleaded to misdemeanor possession of fewer than 35 grams of marijuana in Scott County in 2014 and misdemeanor third-degree assault in Dunklin County, Missouri, in 2011.

Young surrendered to police Saturday afternoon.