A magistrate on Monday ordered that 26-year-old Joshua Tremaine Jones remain jailed on a murder charge. Bond was set at $10,000 on a weapons charge, and the judge scheduled Jones' next hearing for March 9.
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AIKEN, S.C. (WACH/AP) -- A judge has denied bond for the man charged with shooting an Aiken police officer to death.
A magistrate on Monday ordered that 26-year-old Joshua Tremaine Jones remain jailed on a murder charge. Bond was set at $10,000 on a weapons charge, and the judge scheduled Jones' next hearing for March 9.
Jones was arrested after police said he shot an officer responding to a report of suspicious activity. Master Cpl. Sandra Rogers died at a hospital Saturday. She had been with the Aiken Public Safety department for nearly 28 years.
This is the second time an Aiken police officer has been killed in the line of duty in just over a month. Officer Scotty Richardson was shot and killed on Dec. 20.
Police say Jones had killed his girlfriend, 21-year-old Cayce Vice, in her Augusta, Ga., apartment, and then fatally shot Rogers.
Jones' father told reporters his son had past run-ins with the law and "was going through some mental problems.
Twenty-eight candles were placed in the ground at the Aiken park on Sunday evening where Rogers was shot to represent her 28 years of servece to the Aiken Public Safety Department. About 200 people attended the memorial service.
Funeral arrangements have been scheduled for Master Cpl. Sandra "Sandy" Rogers for Wednesday at the University of South Carolina Aiken Convocation Center. Burial is taking place at Historic Bethany Cemetery in downtown Aiken.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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