WINTERSET, Iowa (AP) - A Madison County jury has convicted a Creston man of first-degree murder in the shooting death last year of another man at a rural intersection southwest of Winterset.
Gerald Parker, 42, was found guilty Thursday in the July 21 death of Jonathan Hoffman,39, of Des Moines, station WOI reported.
Prosecutors said a delivery driver found Hoffman’s body face down in the intersection with multiple gunshot wounds. Investigators determined that Parker, Hoffman and another person were in a car earlier that day to drive Hoffman to Creston when Hoffman began complaining that he wanted to drive. When the car pulled over to let Hoffman out so he could get in the driver’s seat, Parker shot him several times, investigators said.
No sentencing date for Parker was listed Friday in online court records.
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