UNDATED (AP) -- A second Wisconsin man has been found guilty by an Illinois jury in the killing of a Neenah man as part of a murder-for-hire scheme in December 2001.
The jury found 33-year-old Michael Johnson of West Allis guilty of first-degree homicide, carrying from 45 years to life in prison, in the slaying of 21-year-old Adam Schultz.
Cook County Judge Diane Cannon scheduled sentencing February 19th.
Co-defendant Marc Norfleet of Menasha is serving a 59-year term after being convicted earlier of hiring Johnson, a family acquaintance, to kill the victim.
Johnson confessed in a 30-minute videotape to authorities that he had been hired by Norfleet, who thought Schultz had been a police informant against him in a drug case.
Prosecutors have said Norfleet lured Schultz to Chicago on the premise that they were going to buy narcotics from a supplier. Schultz was shot execution-style in an alley.