The man accused of killing his young wife and then fleeing the state is now back in Clayton County, where he's facing a homicide charge.
Wisdom Jeffery, 39, was denied bond at his first court appearance Wednesday after being booked into the Clayton County Jail late Tuesday. Jeffery had been in a Cleveland, Ohio, jail following his arrest last month by U.S. marshals.
Investigators have said an episode of the TV show "America's Most Wanted" featuring Jeffery elicited a tip that led to his arrest for the August 2010 shooting death of Corissa Friends in the couple's Riverdale apartment.
Friends was 21 when she died. The couple's baby was 8 months old at the time of the shooting.
“[He] shot her point blank with a shotgun," Jerry Barnes, Clayton County deputy, told Channel 2 Action News. "This was the mother of his child. ... Luckily, the child was not in the house at the time."
Jeffery was arrested on a domestic violence charge on June 21, 2010, and told to stay away from Friends, according to previous AJC reports. On Aug. 11, Friends placed a call to 911; Jeffery was taken into custody and then released, according to police. But a few hours later, she called 911 again moments before being shot and killed.
“He ran for a long time, but eventually he was caught,” Barnes said.
Jeffery's next court appearance will be March 20 at 8 a.m.
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