A Lithonia man has been convicted of a fatal shooting with an AR-15 rifle before trying to hide the evidence by burning vehicles and using a hose to wash away the victim’s blood, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Earnest Lee Johnson, 28, was found guilty of murder Friday in the death of 23-year-old Chanceler McCall, whose body was found in the DeKalb County woods near I-20 about a year after he was killed on Dec. 28, 2020, according to the DeKalb District Attorney’s Office.
DeKalb police had responded around 6 p.m. that day after getting a call about a person shot in the 5000 block of Donnell Way in unincorporated Decatur, where Johnson lived, authorities said. At the scene, officers noticed a pool of blood in the road and several shell casings, but couldn’t find a victim…