MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich.—A 21-year-old man will spend 50 to 70 years in prison for the shooting death and mutilation of his childhood friend in a field north of Detroit.
Andrew Fiacco was sentenced Thursday, March 21. A jury convicted him last month of second-degree murder, using a firearm during a felony, dismemberment and lying to a police officer.
Andrew Fiacco, 21, given 50-70 yrs for 2016 murder of “best friend” Stephen McAfee, 19, of Macomb Twp, during a pot buy in a field in Bruce Twp, hiding the body for a year, then cutting it up and reburying it on family property in Ray Twp: “I take full responsibility.” @WWJ950 pic.twitter.com/vRZ5XbZn3g
— Mike Campbell (@reportermikec) March 21, 2019
Parents of teen shot, dismembered, and buried in Ray Twp await sentencing of son’s killer in Macomb County Circuit Court in Mount Clemens. Andrew Fiacco, 21, was convicted of 2nd Degree Murder of 19 yr old Stephen McAfee while trying to buy marijuana in March 2016. @WWJ950 pic.twitter.com/RIR9egoi5i
— Mike Campbell (@reportermikec) March 21, 2019
Prosecutors said Fiacco shot 19-year-old Stephen McAfee twice in the head in a remote Bruce Township field in March 2016 then dismembered his body and buried some remains on family property.
Andrew Fiacco sentenced in 19-year-old Stephen McAfee’s murder https://t.co/HQqKQVd0sJ
— FOX 2 Detroit (@FOX2News) March 21, 2019
McAfee’s family reported him missing about three days after authorities believe he was killed.
Fiacco said nothing for a year, and twice told an investigator that he had no information on the location of his friend.
In April 2017, he showed investigators where they could find McAfee’s remains, in two shallow graves about 10 miles apart.
Mark Morfino, Macomb County Sheriff’s detective, told a district court in 2017 that Fiacco took his 20-year-old ex-girlfriend, Eevette MacDonald, to the vacant, privately owned field where McAfee was shot, to “show her something” about a month after McAfee was killed.
Andrew Michael Fiacco and Eevette Renee MacDonald are charged with multiple felonies. pic.twitter.com/E0I5lhnbkh
— Local 4 WDIV Detroit (@Local4News) April 28, 2017
A female associate later told sheriff’s deputies that MacDonald had told her Fiacco was responsible for McAfee’s death.
Eevette MacDonald, who was arraigned April 28, 2017, along with her boyfriend, Andrew Fiacco, on charges related to the slaying and mutilation of Stephen McAfee. MacDonald, who pleaded guilty to helping her ex-boyfriend cover up the shooting death and mutilation of his childhood friend in southeastern Michigan was sentenced on Mar. 7, 2019, to a year in prison and three years of probation. (Macomb County Sheriff’s Office via AP)#EevetteMacDonald sentenced for role in #StephenMcAfee #murder https://t.co/5GmNAHQe30
— NY Jᴜsᴛɪᴄᴇ Sᴇᴇᴋᴇʀ (@NYJusticeSeeker) March 7, 2019
MacDonald pleaded guilty in December to being an accessary and to exhumation and mutilation of a body. A third charge of lying to police is to be dismissed at sentencing, which is set for March 7.
