ATLANTA - The Georgia Supreme Court has upheld the murder conviction by a Gwinnett County jury of a South Hall man who was convicted in the 2007 murder of a Duluth woman.
Michael Douglas Fox, who was 45 at the time, was indicted by a Gwinnett grand jury on multiple charges just a month after the home invasion death of Jerry Ann Elliott, 67, of Duluth. Elliott's husband found her dead in their ransacked home in Duluth on September 28, 2007.
The indictment said that Fox robbed Elliott for a wallet containing her driver's license and money. The victim was shot several times in the head and chest with a handgun. Authorities said that Fox was a business associate of the Elliotts with a criminal history that includes 39 arrests.
Fox was taken into custody by Hall County SWAT officers a few days after the murder. The Hall County Sheriff's Office said at the time Gwinnett police asked for assistance when they suspected Fox was at a house in the 5900 block of Atlanta Highway near Gaines Ferry Road.
"Due to the nature of the charges and the perpetrator's violent past the Hall County Sheriff's Office, SWAT Team was called in to handle the arrest," Hall sheriff's spokesman Jeff Strickland said at the time.
The SWAT team took Fox into custody without incident.
In affirming Fox's conviction on the murder charge Monday, the state's high court overturned his armed robbery conviction.
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