Ball Ground , Cherokee County, Ga. October 8, 2007- Cherokee Sheriff's deputies responded to a farm on Trail of Tears Trail in north Cherokee County tonight after a family reported the farm owner, John Frix, 66 years old of Ball Ground, missing. Mr. Frix's body was located by deputies shortly after their arrival. Frix had been killed by one of the numerous deer he was raising on his farm. The deer that killed Frix was a red deer and not native to Georgia. The male deer was in "rut" and family members described the deer as being aggressive in recent days.