Man who showed up wearing body armor to supervise child visitation with his wife’s ex-fiance, then blew Army vet away and claimed self-defense is going away for a long time

A 37-year-old Georgia man is headed to prison for decades after he shot his wife’s ex-fiance to death while preparing to supervise a child visitation session.

Nicholas Michael Mimms was sentenced to life in prison for the shooting death of 31-year-old Eduardo “Eddie” Gilberto Figueroa, the Cherokee County District Attorney’s Office said. In February, a jury convicted Mimms of felony murder, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm. Jurors acquitted him of malice murder.

Prosecutors said Mimms’ wife and Figueroa shared a child and the victim had recently established parental rights. Mimms, who did not know Figueroa, was supervising the victim’s first court-approved parental time…

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