Officials: Jones to face charge for fetus’ death
Richmond County authorities confirmed that they will seek a grand jury indictment against accused cop killer Joshua Jones for feticide for his alleged role in the murder of his 21-year-old pregnant girlfriend, Cayce Vice.
Richmond County has already charged the 26-year-old man with Vice’s murder on allegations he killed Vice before shooting and killing Aiken Public Safety Master Cpl. Sandy Rogers on Jan. 28.
According to Georgia law, “a person commits the offense of feticide if he or she willfully and without legal justification causes the death of an unborn child by any injury to the mother of such child, which would be murder if it resulted in the death of such mother, or if he or she, when in the commission of a felony, causes the death of an unborn child.”
A person convicted of the offense of feticide shall be punished by imprisonment for life.
Jones, 26, has been charged with the murder of Rogers and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime in Aiken County and is being held on Richmond County’s charges.
His bond on the weapons charge was set at $10,000. A magistrate judge cannot set bond on a charge carrying a life sentence, and no bond was set for Rogers’ murder.
Vice’s body was found around 10:30 a.m. on Jan. 28 at her apartment in Richmond County. She had been shot in the head sometime before Rogers was gunned down at 7:40 a.m. in Eustis Park, officials said.
Jones led police on a high-speed chase and eventually to his Batesburg home, where he was arrested around 11:30 a.m.
Jones has appearances scheduled in court on March 9 and again on June 1.
Karen Daily, a graduate of USC, has been the crime reporter at the Aiken Standard for seven years. She has reported here since 2001.
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