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Written by: E. George
Published February 21, 2024 @ 9:30 PM ET
Warning: The following story contains information regarding physical violence against children and adults.
BIBB COUNTY, Ga. – On Wednesday, February 14, 2024, Bibb County Sheriff’s deputies arrested two men for the murder of a one-year-old child. One of the men, 19-year-old Akiem Jamal Jordan, the baby’s father, was arrested in April 2023 for stabbing the infant’s mother and leaving her critically injured.
The most recent crime involved Jordan traveling to his girlfriend’s residence around midnight, assaulting her mother, and abducting the child, Bella Jordan. At 3:03 AM, deputies located Jordan, another man, 20-year-old Raheem Devar Ferrell, and the deceased baby seven miles away.
Deputy Coroner Lonnie Miley disclosed that Bella had been stabbed and beaten. Jordan faces charges of murder and three counts of aggravated assault.
Authorities charged Ferrell with murder and two counts of aggravated assault. Both suspects remain detained without bond.
When law enforcement responded to a disturbance at the Flamingo Drive home, they found “a female injured from a violent physical altercation.” Paramedics arrived and evaluated her, as she told the deputies “that her daughter’s child had been taken by the man who assaulted her, who is also the father of the child.”
EMS transported her to a medical facility for her injuries. After authorities issued a BOLO, investigators received information that led them to discover “a white passenger vehicle” on Old Clinton Road, and inside, “the one-year-old female child was found unresponsive being held by her father.”
Deputy Coroner Miley pronounced her deceased on the scene. He indicated that an autopsy would be performed.
The previous crime involving Jordan occurred on April 29, 2023. Piedmont Medical Center staff alerted authorities to a stabbing that occurred, leaving the female victim in critical condition when she arrived. A Bibb County Sheriff’s officer walked into the ER room and noted that she was stabbed multiple times in her face and body.
She explained that her child’s father, Akiem Jamal Jordan, pulled a small dagger from his pocket and attacked her when she told him she had been dating someone during their relationship break. Deputies suspected the person was a close friend of Jordan.
She said that they went prom shopping before the incident, returned to Jordan’s house, and then walked along a dirt road to talk. Jordan began to cry upon hearing the news and stabbed her repeatedly as she begged him not to kill her.
He finally stopped and walked away when she mentioned they had a child together. She limped back to his house, covered in blood, and asked his mother for help.
She rushed her to the hospital and told the deputy she was unsure how the attack happened. She had only seen them when they left on foot, and then the female returned, covered in blood and needing assistance.
She said she saw Jordan as they left, and he “was talking out of his head.” Deputies located and peacefully arrested him at his home with help from his family members.
They saw that he had changed his clothing, so they retrieved the clothes he had worn during the attack. When allowed inside, they noticed blood on the carpet leading from the front door down the hallway, where the victim collapsed.
A neighbor stated he heard screaming, and when he went outside to investigate, he saw a blood-soaked woman limping toward Wells Place. He also spotted the suspect walking in the opposite direction with blood on one of his arms.
The victim said she lost her phone and wig during the attack. She explained that the dagger Jordan used came in a set he ordered from Amazon that included a sword as well.
Deputies located the sheath and sword, but after searching the wooded area where the stabbing took place, they could not find the dagger. They transported Jordan to the Bibb County LEC for processing.
They learned that the couple’s 11-month-old daughter was not present during the incident. Jordan was charged with aggravated assault and possession of a firearm/knife during the commission of or attempt to commit certain felonies.
These cases are pending in court.
District Attorney Anita R. Howard shared the following statement:
The two incidences involving Akien Jordan have tragically impacted two families. These matters with Jordan are currently open investigations. Therefore, we cannot provide details outside of what is already public information.
On Monday, May, 1, 2023, the Magistrate Court granted a bond to Jordan for the Aggravated Assault case which had occurred on April 29, 2023. Jordan bonded out of jail on that same date.
Jordan was indicted by the Bibb County Grand Jury on June 21, 2023 (which was within 90 days of his arrest), and was charged with the initial warrant counts of Aggravated Assault with the Intent to Murder Shandrea Spencer (the mother of his child) by stabbing and Possession of a Knife During the Commission of a Felony and an additional count of Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon.
The additional count was a special presentment to the Grand Jury and upon indictment a Special Presentment Bench Warrant was issued for that count. The Special Presentment Bench Warrant was filed on July 5, 2023, and was received by the Bibb County Warrant Division on July 7, 2023, and was able to be served upon Jordan at the time of his arrest on February 14, 2024, for the Murder charge. Jordan does not have a bond on the Special Presentment charge.
At the present time Jordan’s April 29, 2023, case is awaiting placement on a calendar call calendar. Cases are placed on calendar call and on trial calendars by the superior court judges, and those calendars are issued and disseminated by the Superior Court Calendar Clerk, Raven Alston (ralston@maconbibb.us). Based on the new charges now incurred by Jordan, our Office has, today, filed a Motion to Revoke the bond for the April 29 case, and a hearing date will be set by the court.
Our Office works closely with the courts to do what we can to protect victims of domestic violence. It is common practice that if a victim of domestic violence is seriously injured by a defendant, to provide prosecutors the time to review the case in an effort to provide the proper facts and evidence to determine a defendant’s potential threat to the victim or the public.
My Office has been in conversations with the courts over this very type of issue. Going forward, we will ask the Magistrate courts to consider denying bond on every domestic violence case in which a victim is seriously injured to give the Superior court and prosecutors the time to evaluate the potential danger to a victim and the community at every stage of the judicial process and not just at hearings in the Superior courts.
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