A 65-year-old Morganton man was convicted of second-degree murder by a Burke County jury on Friday, October 28, 2022, at the conclusion of a week-long trial. The jury found George Lee Allison guilty in the shooting death of Brandon Adams Allison shot Adams in the chest with a 12-gauge shotgun on December 13, 2020, at the defendant’s mobile home. He and Adams had been friends for more than 18 years. The victim’s girlfriend, who witnessed the shooting, was sitting on the couch at the defendant’s residence on the night of the shooting when Adams came to the front door and told her it was time to leave. He did not enter the home According to Adams’ girlfriend, Allison retrieved the shotgun from a bedroom, stood a few feet from the victim and pointed the gun at him. As he stood inside the living room near the open front door, Allison counted down to zero three times then fired a single shot that struck Adams in the chest.
