ATLANTA — The couple accused of killing a 21-year-old Clark Atlanta student before leaving her body in a plastic bin at a DeKalb County park was indicted Friday, authorities said.
Jordyn Jones, 22, and her boyfriend, 21-year-old Barron Brantley, are charged in the the Oct. 31 death of Alexis Crawford, which shocked the community and made national headlines.
Jones and Brantley were indicted Friday on two counts of felony murder as well as one count each of murder, aggravated assault, false imprisonment and concealing the death of another, authorities said. Brantley was also indicted on one count of aggravated sodomy for allegedly sexually assaulting Crawford five days before her murder, a spokesman for the Fulton County District Attorney’s office said.
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Police said Crawford was strangled and smothered with a plastic bag before the couple took her body from the apartment she shared with Jones and left it in the park.
The missing Clark Atlanta senior was the subject of a weeklong search before her body was eventually discovered on Nov. 8, AJC.com previously reported. Jones and Brantley were linked to the crime and arrested.
Atlanta police Detective Mike Young testified in November that Brantley told police he choked Crawford after she and Jones got into a fight on Halloween morning.
“He admitted to choking Ms. Crawford,” Young said during a hearing in Fulton County Magistrate Court. “While he was choking Ms. Crawford, Ms. Jones put a plastic bag over her head.”
Evidence also indicated Brantley sexually assaulted Crawford days earlier, which led to his sodomy charge.
Both Jones and Brantley remain held at the Fulton County Jail without bond, records show.
This story written by Shaddi Abusaid with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.