DEKALB COUNTY, GA — DeKalb County District Attorney Sherry Boston announces the conviction by jury trial of a DeKalb County man charged with a violent home invasion and stabbing in Brookhaven.

Jimmy David Mills, 60, was found guilty of Home Invasion in the First Degree, Aggravated Assault, Possession of a Knife During the Commission of Certain Felonies, and Criminal Trespass in connection with the incident on Sept. 17, 2020.

Immediately following the July 31, 2025 guilty verdicts, DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Courtney L. Johnson, who presided over the trial, sentenced Mills to Life in Prison plus 26 years to serve consecutively.

According to the investigation, at around 4 p.m. officers with the Brookhaven Police Department responded to a report of a home invasion in the 1600 blo

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