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Sentence in 1973 Chickamauga murder finally resolved

LaFAYETTE, Ga. – Forty-three years ago, Eddie Sizemore found his father in the back of the family’s Chickamauga grocery store, beaten and shot, blood streaming down his chest.

“I lived with this for a long time,” Sizemore testified Friday afternoon during a court hearing in Walker County. “I still can’t “

Sizemore stopped. His face tightened. He tapped the wood in front of him, took a breath.

He did not look to his right, where his father’s killer sat.

“I see it every day,” Sizemore said. “How he was shot. How he was killed. Everything. I see everything.”