Murder suspect from Kirksville gets 30 years for fatal shooting

MOBERLY, Mo. — A murder suspect from Kirksville will spend the next three decades behind bars.

Sadiq Moore, 25, of Kirksville, was sentenced Friday in Randolph County Circuit Court to 30 years in prison for a 2020 fatal shooting of a Mexico, Missouri, man.

Prosecutors say Moore and two other men killed Chance Davis, 25, during a home invasion where they intended to rob Davis.

In April 2022, a Randolph County jury found Moore guilty of second-degree murder, armed criminal action, unlawful use of a weapon and first-degree burglary.

The other two murder suspects, Deyton Fisher, of Mexico, Missouri, and Timothy Midgyett, of Columbia, Missouri, are set to go on trial in Linn and Audrain counties next spring.

Police stated in court documents that the deadly home invasion was drug related.

Investigators said the three suspects learned Davis sold marijuana out of his home and had a few thousand dollars in cash in the residence.

The victim’s girlfriend told police that Moore, Fisher and Midgyett knocked on Davis' front door in the middle of the night and yelled "Police."

The front door was then forced open, and Davis was fatally shot as he was coming to see what was going on.

A witness, who did not know any of the three suspects, picked all of them out of photo line-ups.