Video: Columbus Man Indicted On Murder Charge

Barry Boozer

COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI) – A Columbus man will go to trial after being indicted for murder.

Barry Allen Boozer was indicted for murder by a Lowndes County grand jury.

The deadly stabbing happened in November 2016.

Robert Elliot Thomas, 34, was found at America’s Best Value Inn on Highway 45.

He later died at the hospital.

Police say Thomas and Boozer got into an argument in Boozer’s hotel room.

Investigators say the two knew each other and Thomas was a visitor in Boozer’s room.