Jesse Seroyer, Jr., United States
Marshal for the Middle District of Alabama, announces that on the
morning of February 2, 2007, a team of state and local law
enforcement officers led by U.S. Marshals arrested Roderick Alonzo
OKONJI, in Tuskegee, Alabama.
OKONJI has been charged with one count of murder and one count of
aggravated assault in
Clayton County, Georgia. OKONJI was wanted in connection with the
shooting death of
Nathaniel Henry and aggravated assault of Abendigo Pope in Jonesboro
Georgia in December
2006.
The Southeast Regional Fugitive Task
Force provided the U.S. Marshals in the Middle District
of Alabama with information that OKONJI was possibly in Tuskegee,
Alabama. U.S. Marshals,
with the assistance of the Lee County Sheriffs Office and Macon
County Sheriffs Office,
confirmed HILL was currently living in the Tuskegee, Alabama.
OKONJI was arrested without incident.
OKONJI is currently being held in a local jail pending
extradition to Clayton County, Georgia.
In fiscal year 2005, the U.S.
Marshals Service arrested more than 35,500 federal fugitive felons,
clearing 38,500 federal felony warrants - more than all other
federal law enforcement agencies
combined. Working with authorities at the federal, state and local
levels, U.S. Marshals-led
fugitive task forces arrested more than 44,000 state and local
fugitives, clearing 51,200 state and local felony warrants.
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