FORT DODGE — A Fort Dodge man convicted in August of first-degree murder will not be getting a new trial.
Webster County District Judge Kurt Wilke on Friday denied 28-year-old Derrick McElroy’s motion for a new trial.
A jury found McElroy guilty in the May 2011 shooting death of 19-year-old Brandyn Preston at a party. Preston, who was left paralyzed from the neck down, later died from his injuries. McElroy’s attorney, Charles Kenville, asked for a new trial.