A southwest Missouri man, charged with murder for the death of a woman in a motel room in Columbia, faces upgraded charges.
Nicholas Ayres, 35, of Crane, was charged with second-degree murder and first-degree domestic assault resulting in serious physical injury last month. But on Friday, Ayres was indicted by a public grand jury on an upgraded charge of first-degree murder. He also remains charged with first-degree domestic assault and will be arraigned on the upgraded charges later this afternoon.
The charges stem from an incident that occurred on August 12 at the By the Way Motel in the 1300 block of Rane Line Street. Officers were called to the motel for a cardiac arrest and arrived to find Destiny Dunn, 37, of Kansas City, dead at the scene…