PERRY — A Middle Georgia man whom police last week described as “a person of interest” in the deaths of three women and a 2-year-old girl here has a history of past domestic violence encounters with one of the victims, court documents show.
Michael James Jordan, 34, was jailed on charges unrelated to the killings one day after the four victims were found dead in a mobile home off Gaines Drive.
Jordan, allegedly in defiance of the terms of his probation, had been staying at the residence with a 37-year-old woman named Tuquondea Robinson.
The police here have said Robinson was among the victims whose bodies were discovered on the evening of April 4 when officers were sent to check on the well-being of people at a trailer on Perry’s southwest side near I-75.
Detectives, in statements sent to news outlets, have said three of the victims were stabbed, that one died of suffocation and that they believe their assailant “knew the family.”
Jordan, who has not been charged in the slayings, is jailed on charges of aggravated stalking, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and a violation of probation.
The charges stem from a February 2024 conviction for aggravated stalking, to which Jordan pleaded guilty. He was sentenced to 10 years on probation and ordered to have no contact with Robinson and to avoid illicit drugs and alcohol.
However, court documents reviewed by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution indicate Jordan in the past violated court orders telling him to stay away from her.
Perry Police Chief Alan Everidge on Monday declined to comment on specifics of the probe and how Jordan came to detectives’ attention.
“We’re continuing to investigate,” Everidge said. “We’re working on (the case) just as hard as we can.”
On Aug. 3, 2023, Jordan was arrested by Warner Robins police on a battery charge against Robinson. The next month, on Sept. 5, Jordan was accused of misdemeanor battery against Robinson for “grabbing her by the face and throwing her into a wall, and wrapping his arm around (her) neck,” court documents state. At the time, Jordan and Robinson were living together in an apartment in Warner Robins.
Jordan was granted bond a couple of weeks later and on Sept. 19, 2023, in violation of his bond requirements, according to prosecutors in that case, returned to the apartment “for the purpose of harassing and intimidating” Robinson “by banging on her front door.”
Jordan was jailed again and, that October, indicted on the aggravated stalking charge.
When he was denied bond in December 2023, court documents show that prosecutors, in successfully arguing against his pretrial release, cited Jordan’s two prior felony convictions. Those crimes included damage to property in nearby Macon County in 2016 and burglary there in 2013.
Houston County prosecutors further noted in their argument against releasing Jordan in late 2023 that he had been convicted of misdemeanor obstruction in August 2022 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
“Of note,” assistant district attorney Mike Smith wrote in a court filing at the time, “is that two counts of aggravated assault (strangulation) and one count of simple assault were dismissed in exchange for that plea.”
Smith at the time went on to mention that Jordan was out on bond “for three previous cases” locally, all of them involving Robinson.
Smith mentioned that Jordan was arrested by sheriff’s deputies in neighboring Macon County and police in that county in the city of Marshallville on May 31, 2020, “for two sets of cases” against Robinson.
Charges in those incidents included aggravated assault, criminal trespass and obstruction, and from October 2020 until May 2021, Jordan was sent to prison for some of those charges, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections.
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