“He went to a funeral with a gun. Multiple people were shooting and hit. Fortunately, there was only one death. This was in a crowded area where many others could
URBANA â A Champaign County judge Wednesday acquitted a Minnesota man of battery and weapons charges in two cases, finding he was insane at the time he committed the offenses.
Judge Roger Webber considered the reports of police and Champaign psychiatrist Dr. Larry Jeckel in determining that Jeffrey Heard, 38, of Pipestone, Minn., was not guilty by reason of insanity of aggravated unlawful use of weapons and aggravated battery.
Heard was first arrested Jan. 2 by Illinois State Police who found him with guns, ammunition and drugs in a truck in the parking lot of the state police District 10 headquarters on U.S. 45 in Pesotum.