Michael D. Bowman was arraigned Monday in Spalding County Superior Court, where he faces the death penalty on charges that he murdered a Griffin police officer.
Bowman is accused of shooting to death Officer Kevin Jordan, who was working an off-duty security job at a Waffle House on May 31, 2014.
Bowman has pleaded not guilty.
“This man’s not guilty? I want [him] to look in his face and tell me you’re not guilty,” Deborah Jordan, the mother of the victim, told Channel 2 Action News after the arraignment. “And my third son saw you slay his brother and he fell right before his eyes on the ground. And then you aimed that gun at him and you say you’re not guilty? Oh my Lord.
“He’s guilty and I would stand on the hills and say, ‘You’re guilty.’”
Jordan, a 43-year-old father of seven, was shot after he tried to break up a squabble between people who were asked to leave the restaurant, police said.
Bowman's girlfriend, Chantell Mixon, was also charged with murder in the case. Both are being held without bond.
Jordan was on the ground trying to restrain Mixon when Bowman, then 30, "maliciously shot" him multiple times in the back, Officer Mike Richardson with the Griffin Police Department said last year.
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