News brief: Homeless man arrested after armed robbery

A homeless man has been charged with an armed robbery that took place May 11.

Christopher William Jones, 18, was arrested by Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police on June 8. He had been identified as one of two suspects during an investigation of a robbery and attack of two men on a foot path near their residence on Ogeechee Road.

Both victims stated that they were walking home when two men, one on each side of the path, jumped out, hit them on the head, forced them to the ground and robbed them at gunpoint.

This investigation is ongoing.

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