The suspect in a seven-year-old Atlanta homicide was indicted Tuesday morning, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Channel 2 Action News have learned.
Torico Montavius Jackson, 30, was formally charged by a Fulton County grand jury for the 2004 murder of John Ray, who worked for the county’s Conflict Defender’s office at the time of his death.
Ray died the night of May 16, 2004, when he was attacked in his home, beaten and stabbed multiple times, then tied up and left to die.
The case was solved by Atlanta’s complex and cold-case squad, whose investigators used new technology and innovative techniques to parse together disparate pieces of evidence that led to Jackson's indictment.
Jackson’s penchant for crime landed him in Valdosta State Prison. And that’s where he was when evidence in the Ray case led investigators in his direction – days before he was due to be released.
Return to ajc.com and tune in to WSB-TV and WSB Radio at 4 p.m. for more details on how detectives closed the case.
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