Kimberly Jordan remembers walking outside her home and finding her younger brother's lifeless body. Marcus Jordan, 46, lived a troubled life in and out of correctional facilities, but according to his sister, he was healing his painful childhood memories and was working toward a brighter future. On June 19, 2015, Marcus was killed minutes after he called his nephew to inform him he was walking up his driveway. Although HCSO detectives believe they have identified the attacker, without sufficient witness testimony, they can't make an arrest.
Natalia Verdina, Host: A MEMORY JUST AS VIVID…
Sister: “it occurred just right outside my backdoor”
Natalia Verdina, Host: AND PAINFUL, TODAY, AS IT WAS FIVE YEARS AGO.
Sister: “no one has the right to take a life”
KIMBERLY JORDAN WANTS HER BROTHER’S KILLER LOCKED UP.
Detective Blair: “he’s known to law enforcement, well known within the community”
Natalia Verdina, Host: BUT IF WITNESSES DON’T COME FORWARD — HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY DETECTIVES CAN’T MAKE AN ARREST.
Detective Blair: “the message is very clear as the longer that you don’t provide the information the more you are empowering that individual”
Natalia Verdina, Host: WE TAKE A LOOK BACK AT 46-YEAR-OLD MARCUS JORDAN'S LIFE AND THE EVENTS THAT LED UP TO HIS DEATH IN HOPES *YOU* CAN HELP US SOLVE THIS “UNFINISHED BUSINESS.”
Sister: “We had a rough life but we were really close with each other because of our upbringing”
Natalia Verdina, Host: KIMBERLY JORDAN WAS YOUNGER THAN HER BROTHER —
BUT HE LOOKED UP TO HER
Sister: “but for some reason he looked at me like being a mother figure to him”
Natalia Verdina, Host: THEY SUPPORTED EACH OTHER.
Sister: “my step father was very abusive”
Natalia Verdina, Host: BUT A CHILD HERSELF, KIMBERLY COULD ONLY HELP SO MUCH.
Sister: “It was a very traumatic childhood I should say”
Natalia Verdina, Host: AND SHE BLAMES IT FOR MARCUS’ BAD DECISIONS.
Sister: with the abuse that Marcus encountered he did lead to you know getting in trouble and committing crimes so he spent the bulk of his life in juvenile facilities and then in turn he transitioned his adult life into correctional facilities”
Natalia Verdina, Host: ON JUNE NINETEENTH 2015 MARCUS’ LIFE WAS TAKEN FROM HIM.
H-C-S-O HOMICIDE DETECTIVES DISCOVERED HE HAD BEEN SHOT AROUND MIDNIGHT AND FOUND HIS BODY ON WOOD RIDGE ROAD IN TAMPA.
Natalia: “were you at home at the time of the killing?”
Sister: “yes, we were all at home, it happened about twelve midnight, he had called my son, because he had went to cut hair earlier that day and he didn’t get home until late, my son was not at home so the doors were locked, so he called my son, and my son was on the way to come and unlock the doors, and actually my son was the one my son was coming around the corner and that’s when my brother was laying in the road”
Natalia Verdina, Host: DETECTIVE MICHAEL BLAIR HAS BEEN INVESTIGATING THE MURDER FOR YEARS.
Natalia: “do you know who did it?”
Detective Blair: “we definitely have a person of interest in this case, it’s an individual who is known in the area, and would have been known to the victim in this case”
Natalia Verdina, Host: BUT THE CASE IS LACKING WITNESSES.
Detective Blair: “and I firmly believe that there’s a number of neighbors who know who did this, because of who the individual was that we believe is involved, they have been extremely reluctant to give us any information”
Natalia Verdina, Host: MEANWHILE KIMBERLY IS GROWING RESTLESS.
Sister: “so there’s not a day that goes by that we don’t walk out the back door and we see him still lying on the ground”
Natalia Verdina, Host: ALTHOUGH HER BROTHER HAD A PAST —
SHE SAYS HE WAS MOVING TOWARD A BRIGHTER FUTURE.
Sister: “he was definitely a product of his environment but at the point he was murdered he had definitely changed his life he had outgrown that stage”
Natalia Verdina, Host: AND HE WAS DOING IT ONE HAIRCUT AT A TIME.
Sister: “he would cut the kids in the neighborhood’s hair for free he was going to go back to school anybody could come get a haircut, I don’t have any money and he would just cut the hair”
Natalia Verdina, Host: AT 46 YEARS OLD, MARCUS WAS SHOT AND KILLED.
WHY IT HAPPENED IS UNCLEAR.
WHO DID IT, IS SHY OF BEING ANSWERED.
Detective Blair: “if you want to take the power away from this individual then tell us what happened, communicate with us, and let us do our job”
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