Jordan Jones, 23, of Silver Spring, Maryland, was sentenced for voluntary manslaughter while armed for the killing of Noel Nicol in Southeast D.C. in October 2021. The announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Chief Pamela Smith of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
Jones pleaded guilty on December 5, 2023, to voluntary manslaughter while armed for the fatal shooting of Nicol, an acquaintance. Superior Court Judge Michael O’Keefe sentenced Jones to 13 years in prison and five years of supervised release.
According to court documents, Jones agreed to meet Nicol in Southeast D.C. on October 11, 2021, the day after Jones arranged to purchase a 9mm handgun (the same calibre as a murder weapon). Family and friends last saw Nicol on the afternoon of October 11, 2021.
The police did not locate Nicol until three days later when they were investigating an anonymous tip and discovered Nicol’s body in the driver’s seat of a car parked on Savannah Place S.E.
The police could not locate the murder weapon or any eyewitnesses, but detectives obtained surveillance video footage from the vicinity of the vehicle for a three-day period and developed Jones as a suspect in the murder.
Jones admitted to the police in his post-arrest interview that he was in the car at the time of the shooting and that he and Nicol struggled over a gun. The medical examiner’s findings and the physical evidence recovered by the police were consistent with the shots being fired at close range from the passenger side of the vehicle where Jones was sitting.
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