Well, by golly, I actually found something under a section of the criminal code for inchoate offenses. It covers an attempt to commit murder, but it’s not called Attempted Murder. Under 564.011, an attempt to commit a class A felony is a class B felony.
A DA, given the evidence, would most likely file the more serious class A assault charge, instead of the less serious attempt to commit a felony charge.
In any event, the courts are clogged up... it should be plead down to something much less I suspect.