Attempted murder suspect arrested
Yuma police on Tuesday arrested a 20-year-old man who was being sought as a suspect in an attempted homicide that happened on Friday in the 2100 Block of S. 5th Avenue.
Officer Janet Sanchez said that Jimmie Roy Jordan was located in the 1800 block of South Walnut, where he was taken into custody without incident.
Jordan, who will be arraigned in Yuma Justice Court on Wednesday, was arrested on charges of attempted first-degree murder, two counts of aggravated assault and for carrying a weapon during the commission of a felony crime.
On June 17, officers were dispatched to the 5th Avenue location in reference to a man down call. Upon their arrival, officers found a 31-year-old male with gunshot wounds.
The man was transported to Yuma Regional Medical Center and later flown to a Phoenix-area hospital with life-threatening injuries. No further information was released at the time.
This is not the first time Jordan had been wanted by law enforcement.
Last year Jordan, who eventually turned himself in, had also been sought by the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office for questioning in connection to a triple murder that happened on Sept. 3 at a home in the 2700 block of West 5th Street.
Investigators from the sheriff’s office wanted to interview him in connection to the shooting deaths of 20-year-old Grady Baxter, 19-year-old Nicholas Grabbe and 24-year-old Javier Sanchez, all of whom were from Yuma.
While he was never in- dicted in the triple homicide, Jordan was charged with multiple unrelated felony drug offenses, which stemmed from a search warrant that was served at his residence.
Those charges included one count of possession of drug paraphernalia and six counts of narcotic drugs for sale. Since he was on unsupervised probation stemming from a DUI case out of Yuma Municipal Court in March, he was ineligible for bond.
The case against him, however, was dropped in Jan. 2019 after the charges against him were dismissed without prejudice. He was 19 years old at the time.