Overview
- Officers were dispatched to Saddle Bar in Acworth around 2:42–2:46 a.m. Saturday and found 28-year-old Jordan Jones with a gunshot wound.
- Bar management said Jones, working security, intervened after witnessing a man assault a woman and was later shot in the parking lot.
- Jones was transported to Wellstar Kennestone Hospital, where he died from his injuries.
- Police arrested 25-year-old Daniel Di Vonne Parsons, who faces charges of murder, aggravated assault, and aggravated battery, and he is being held without bond in Cobb County jail.
- Jones was a former University of West Alabama and Indoor Football League linebacker with the Tulsa Oilers and San Antonio Gunslingers, and he was set to join the Michigan Arsenal, prompting tributes from teams, schools, and friends.