Crime & Safety

Police Charge Man in January Peoplestown Killing

Sydney Clark, 24, of Riverdale, was arrested in Lithonia on Thursday and is charged in the Jan. 8 robbery and murder of 37-year-old Fikree Jordan.

Atlanta police say they have a man in custody who has been charged with the January murder of a man in Peoplestown.

Sydney Clark, 24, of Riverdale, was arrested in Lithonia on Thursday and is accused of the Jan. 8 robbery and murder of 37-year-old Fikree Jordan in what was the first homicide of the year in an East Atlanta Patch community.

On the date in question, Jordan was found in the 900 block of Farrington Place having been shot multiple times.

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According Atlanta Police spokesman John Chafee, Homicide Unit investigators were able to ascertain probable cause to issue an arrest warrant for Clark, who was taken into custody Thursday by the Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force and transported to the Fulton County Jail.

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