Surveillance image of the Alexan EAV murder suspect. (Courtesy Atlanta Police Department)
Surveillance image of the Alexan EAV murder suspect. (Courtesy Atlanta Police Department)

Atlanta Police have arrested a suspect in the shooting death of a man at a luxury apartment complex in East Atlanta Village. According to our broadcast partner CBS 46, the suspect has been named as Jeffries Anderson.

Jonathan Alex Newton was killed on the afternoon of Oct. 31 inside his apartment at the Alexan EAV complex on Metropolitan Avenue when he interrupted a burglary in progress. Newton got into a fight with the suspect, and was fatally shot.

Anderson then fled the scene and had been on the run for nearly a month before being taken into custody. A reward $25,000 was offered for information on finding the murder suspect.

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Collin Kelley is the executive editor of Atlanta Intown, Georgia Voice, and the Rough Draft newsletter. He has been a journalist for nearly four decades and is also an award-winning poet and novelist.