Man caught red-handed convicted of murder
After shooting a man and leaving him to die, Jerome Everett apparently grabbed the victim's keys and clothes in his bloody hands and ran.
He told police he killed 37-year-old Keith Nelson in self defense.
The jury didn't believe him.
Everett was sentenced to life plus five years in prison following his conviction Tuesday in a Fulton County courtroom.
Everett, 25, was found guilty of felony murder, aggravated assault and firearm possession in the March 28, 2008, killing.
Nelson was found in the apartment he rented in the 300 block of Highland Avenue, police said. Everett was arrested a short time later still carrying the victim's clothes and keys.
Everett was also attempted to a hide a stolen flat screen television behind a parked truck, said Yvette Brown, spokeswoman for the Fulton County District Attorney's Office. A 9 mm handgun used as the murder weapon was recovered from a grassy area nearby, she said.
Senior Judge John Girardeau, a visiting judge from Hall County, handed down Everett's sentence, Brown said.
