An Ellenwood man has been sentenced to life without the possibility of parole plus an additional 90 years after a DeKalb County jury convicted him in a Valentine’s Day shooting that left one man dead and a woman seriously injured. The DeKalb County District Attorney’s office reported that last Thursday, July 31, Javoka Shumaker, aged 46, was found guilty on multiple charges including Malice Murder, Felony Murder, and Aggravated Assault.
According to the DeKalb County Police, the shooting occurred outside an apartment on Embarcadero Road in Stonecrest where officers found two victims with gunshot wounds; Paul Wilson, 23, was declared dead at the scene while a 28-year-old woman, identified as Shumaker’s ex-girlfriend, was rushed to Grady Memorial Hospital in critical condition as she had been shot in the leg and chest and the woman, policy had been previously called to the apartment for domestic incidents involving her attempts to keep Shumaker out. Furthermore, Shumaker was previously convicted in a domestic violence case with a different victim in Gwinnett County.
During the sentencing, Judge Gregory A. Adams of the DeKalb County Superior Court, who also presided over the trial, issued the consequential life sentence. In the words of Senior Assistant District Attorney Elizabeth Tarver, who prosecuted the case alongside Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney Nicole Finnie and District Attorney Investigator Jose Berrones, the Violence and Sexual Assault Unit played a critical role in achieving the conviction…