Man Arrested For Shooting Another While Exchanging Items: Police

ACWORTH, GA — A man has been arrested in connection with the shooting last week at the Waldan Pond apartments in Acworth during an exchange of an item sold online.

Eric Jordan Elam, 26, of Acworth, was arrested Tuesday in Stone Mountain by the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force. Elam was wanted on warrants for aggravated assault and armed robbery.

He is accused of shooting Diamond Fane, 24, of Kennesaw. Fane told investigators he was at the apartments to sell Elam shoes when the shooting occurred.

At 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 9, Cherokee Sheriff's deputies responded to a person shot call at the Hidden Falls Mobile Home Park, 6359 Bells Ferry Road in Acworth.

When deputies arrived, they found Fane lying in a doorway, suffering from a gunshot wound to his chest and arm. He was taken to Wellstar Kennestone Hospital, where he is in stable condition.

Fane said he drove to Hidden Falls, where his girlfriend lives, after being shot earlier at the Waldan Pond apartment complex on Bells Ferry Road, one mile south of the mobile home park.

The shooter, who police said is Elam, fled in a gold Infiniti, which was later found abandoned off Wooten Lake Road in Cobb County.

Fane told detectives the meeting at Waldan Pond was to complete the online sale of a pair of shoes. Fane said a man took his shoes and then shot him.

Cherokee Sheriff's investigators also charged Elam with an additional count of armed robbery from a Feb. 3 incident at the Walmart off Bells Ferry Road, where Elam is accused of robbing a woman at gunpoint and taking her phone and cash.

Elam is currently in the DeKalb County jail where he faces additional charges of armed robbery and aggravated assault. He is also wanted in Gwinnett County for probation violation.