JONESBORO — According information from the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office, a suspect who was arrested in connection to an Oct. 19 fatal shooting in Jonesboro, had been in the U.S. illegally.

In a Thursday, Oct. 23 Nixle alert from Clayton County Sheriff Levon Allen, Salvador Rodriguez faces the following charges — malice murder, aggravated assault, possession of a weapon during a crime, possession of weapon in an unauthorized location and possession of a weapon on school property.

According to Clayton County Court records, Rodriguez had been scheduled for a first appearance hearing Saturday, Oct. 25 in Magistrate Court.

On Oct. 19, 2025, the Jonesboro and Clayton County School police departments responded to a person shot call on the 1000 block of Fifth Ave. — a parking lot of the scho

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