A 31-year-old Show Low man convicted of second-degree murder has had his day in court. Joseph Barton Jr., has been sentenced in Navajo County Superior Court to 23 years in the Arizona Department of Corrections, with credit for 595 days served in relation to a fatal shooting on Oct. 25, 2022, in White Mountain Lake.

County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the 1800 block of Snyder Circle in White Mountain Lake for a report of a male subject who had been shot and was unresponsive. When deputies and detectives arrived on scene they located a deceased male, later identified as Andres C. Moreno, 70, of Show Low. Barton had fled the scene but later surrendered at the Speedway store in Taylor.

Barton was represented by Attorney Adam Zickerman, with deputy county attorneys K. Clint Metheney and Patrick Zinicola prosecuting. He was sentenced by Judge Dale Nielson.