Shelby County Man Convicted Of Murdering Business Partner

SHELBY COUNTY, AL - A man who was charged with murdering his friend and business partner in 2016 has been convicted. This week, a jury found 39-year-old Adam Michael Burrus guilty of killing Connie Woolweaver in her Highland Lakes home.

Burrus was the owner of Green Solution Services, a landscape company, and also Bass Attacker LLC, a company he founded which sells plastic fishing lures. Woolweaver was a partner in the lure business.

Woolweaver, according to an Alabama Media Group report, had loaned Burrus a total of $176,000 and was calling in those loans. A week before her death, Woolweaver texted a friend, saying she was not going to talk with Burrus until he repaid her. Burrus had repaid her about $47,000, of which $43,000 was borrowed from a bank.

Woolweaver was found dead in her home on Dec. 14, 2016 by her 13-year-old son when he arrived home from school. Investigators found nine shell casings and eight bullet fragments near Woolweaver's body and said one of the shots entered through the back of her head and exited through her eye.

Burrus, prosecutors said, saw killing Woolweaver as a means of escaping his money problems. “If you take care of Connie Woolweaver, you take care of the debt,’’ said Shelby County Assistant District Attorney Daniel McBrayer.

Although Burrus was not initially a suspect in the murder, investigators became suspicious after holes were found in the timeline Burrus gave of his whereabouts the day of the slaying. Burrus provided investigators with a timeline that they were able to discredit through time-stamped surveillance video at all of the places he mentioned, including his shop and a hamburger restaurant where he said he and two others ate lunch. Burrus was arrested shortly afterward.

Circuit Judge Bill Bostick said sentencing will be set at a later date. Burrus faces life in prison.