MACON, Ga. — The teen accused of killing his 20-month-old daughter this week was already charged last year with stabbing the child's mother, according to an incident report from the Bibb County Sheriff's Office.
The Bibb County Sheriff's Office says In the early morning hours of Feb. 14, Akiem Jamal Jordan went to the home of his girlfriend and their 20-month-old daughter, Bella Jordan.
They say he got into a fight with Bella's grandmother, injuring her, and then took the toddler.
The sheriff's office says they found Jordan three hours later and 7 miles away, with Bella's body in his car.
The child had been beaten and stabbed, according to Deputy Coroner Lonnie Miley.
Jordan has been charged with murder and three counts of aggravated assault. A second person, Rahem Devar Ferrell, also faces charges of murder and two counts of aggravated assault. Both are being held without bond.
The sheriff's office says that the toddler's mother, Shandrea Spencer, was the one who reported Wednesday's fight and abduction.
Less than a year ago, they say, Spencer was the victim of a stabbing on April 29, 2023, when she told Akiem she had been seeing someone else.
According to the incident report, Spencer and Akiem had gone shopping together for the prom.
When they returned to Akiem's house, they walked down a dirt road to talk. Spencer said the two had been separated and had been on a break.
The report says that deputies found information suggesting that Akiem guessed who Spencer was seeing, a close friend of his.
This is when things turned violent. Akiem started to cry before pulling a dagger from his pocket that he had gotten as part of a sword set that he ordered from Amazon.
Akiem attacked Spencer with the dagger, stabbing her repeatedly as she begged him not to kill her. He finally stopped when he told him to stop because they had a child together.
Spencer managed to limp back to Akiem's house. Akiem's mother, Stephanie Jordan, took her to the hospital.
Stephanie told deputies at the hospital that she wasn't sure what happened and that Spencer had shown up at her house bleeding and asking for help. She said she saw her as soon as she was leaving, and he was "talking out of his head."
Spencer was in critical condition but recovered before being released from the hospital.
Deputies arrested Akiem at his house and were able to get his clothes and the sword set from the home. But the dagger was nowhere to be found. They searched in the woods near where the attack happened but did not find it.
At the time, Bella Jordan was 11 months old and was not there when the attack happened but was at the hospital with Stephanie Jordan. Bella was turned over to Spencer's family.
ANITA R. HOWARD
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
February 15, 2024
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.