DJ Fickey with one of his children before his murder in 2016. (Courtesy: Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit)

WALKER COUNTY, Ga. (WDEF)- Last week, a Walker County man was convicted in a 2016 murder that went unsolved for several years.

A roadside memorial for DJ Fickey sits on the side of Highway 193 in Walker County, near where he was murdered on October 3, 2016.

For nine long years, his family has awaited justice in his case.

Finally, they have received it.

Marshall Payne was convicted by a Walker County jury in less than an hour of murdering DJ Fickey.

Prosecutors say that the murder was initially treated as a suicide in part due to the statements of Payne and the nature of the gunshot wound.

However, Fickey’s family and a Walker County detective, Allen Ellenburg, said that confl

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