Two men convicted of killing a third man during a 2003 home invasion and given life sentences were granted a re-trial, but in the end, the verdicts and sentences remained the same, the Fulton County District Attorney's Office said Monday.
Thomas McCoy, 27, and Michael Favors, 24, were first convicted in 2005 in the murder of 42-year-old Theodore Barber, according to Yvette Brown, a district attorney's spokeswoman.
A motion for a new trial was granted in 2011, and the re-trial ended with a second conviction Friday, Brown said.
Both men were convicted of murder, felony murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, burglary, theft by receiving stolen property (auto) and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, Brown said.
Favors also was convicted of aggravated Assault with a motor vehicle on a peace officer.
Following their latest convictions, each man was sentenced to life plus five years in prison by presiding Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney, Brown said.
Barber was shot and killed Dec. 2, 2003, inside his Welcome All Road apartment in south Fulton County. He called 911 to report two men attempting to kick in his front door, and the 911 recording captured the sound of the door being knocked in and shots fired.
McCoy and Favors, who had gone to the apartment complex intending to rob someone, left in separate vehicles but were quickly taken into custody, according to the DA's office.
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