Fulton County murder conviction overturned

The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday upheld a Fulton County judge’s decision to grant a new trial to Xavier Harris and overturn his murder conviction for the Aug. 1, 2005, killing of Ron Strozier.

Harris and four other men were found guilty during a 2006 trial for the fatal shooting of Strozier near a Washington Road apartment complex following a fight with friends of the victim. In its ruling, the court agreed with the Fulton judge who found Harris was “a peripheral figure” caught up in a neighborhood feud.