Kirksville man convicted of 2nd-degree murder stemming from 2019 shooting
Kirksville Daily Express
A Kirksville man was convicted of second-degree murder and armed criminal action in Adair County Circuit Court Thursday, the county’s first jury trial in over a year due to the pandemic.
Andrew Head, 20, was convicted of those two charges by a jury following his role in the 2019 shooting death of Izaiha J. McFarland, 17. Head was the accomplice of Drake Zanoni, who the state alleges fired the killing shot.
Because Head was the accomplice to the crime, getting a second-degree murder charge was a difficult hurdle for Adair County Prosecutor Matt Wilson. But the jury believed that was an accurate charge following two days of trial and about two and a half hours of deliberation on Thursday.