Macon mother loses second son to gun violence in about 3 years

A little more than three years ago, Pam Jordan buried her younger son.

Tuesday, she was preparing to bury her oldest — both victims of gun violence.

Tyrell Jordan, 34, was shot multiple times about 3 a.m. Tuesday while at his girlfriend’s place at Sandy Springs Apartments at 3044 Bloomfield Drive.

The girlfriend told Bibb County sheriff’s deputies she had walked to the store and found Jordan wounded when she returned.

For hours, his mother kept vigil at the hospital, just a few blocks from where she’s worked for decades at Jeneane’s Cafe on Mulberry Street.

Her older son was in surgery after sustaining internal injuries from wounds in his shoulder and torso.

Jordan was pronounced dead at 8:20 a.m. at the Medical Center, Navicent Health, Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones said. An autopsy is planned Wednesday morning.

[Update: Macon man charged in shooting death at Bloomfield apartment]

Jordan is Bibb County’s seventh homicide victim of the year.

Jordan, of 4107 Napier Ave., wasn’t able to tell investigators anything about the shooting, but nothing was taken from the Bloomfield apartment, said Linda Howard, a Bibb County sheriff’s deputy and public affairs officer.

Neighbors gathered in the dark of night outside apartment M-3 in the complex, but they said they did not see or hear anything before being awakened by the commotion of patrol cars and rescue vehicles.

Tuesday’s shooting was less than a mile from where Gary Food Mart store clerk Prakash Patel was shot to death during an armed robbery early Saturday.

At Jordan’s home in the Napier Park Apartments near Park Street, Pam Jordan was too numb to speak about losing her only surviving son.

Asked what she thought happened earlier that morning, Jordan wasn’t sure.

“I’ve heard so many different things. I just don’t know,” Jordan, in her mid-50s, said before going to lie down.

Three years ago on April 9, Brandon “Fat Man” Jordan was shot in the head, chest and neck during a fight on Adams Avenue. He died four days later.

Tyrell Jordan was there that night and told investigators he had gotten into a fight with Keith “Big Keith” Valentino Jackson.

Brandon Jordan tried to intervene before the bullets flew, one of them grazing his older brother, who was banging his head against a wall when officers arrived.

Jackson pleaded guilty to lesser charges and is serving time in prison.

At Brandon Jordan’s funeral, the younger son was lauded for trying to defend his older brother.

When Tyrell Jordan was accused of killing Zachary Kendrick in February 2003, “Fat Man” also appealed to the dead man’s brother not to retaliate in jail.

Instead, that man opened fire on Brandon Jordan, hitting him in the leg and shoulder.

Tyrell Jordan’s first murder trial ended in a mistrial in December 2003. The next summer, he was offered a plea deal after witnesses changed their stories and others failed to show in court.

Jordan pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in the slaying at the Houston Avenue Pool Hall where owner Robert Parks, who the defense said had threatened others, was the intended target.

At the younger Jordan’s funeral in 2013, Prophetess Jeanese Crowell asked Tyrell Jordan to stand.

“There is nothing that you could have done to stop this day. Nothing,” Crowell told him. “Because guess what? We all have an appointed time.”

She asked him to accept Christ.

“Do you believe?”

“Yes, ma’am,” he said.

Tyrell leaves behind a nearly 4-year-old son who carries his father’s name.

Anyone with information in the killing is asked to call the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office at 478-751-7500 or Macon Regional Crimestoppers at 877-68-CRIME or 478-742-2330.

This story was originally published June 21, 2016 at 6:44 AM with the headline "Macon mother loses second son to gun violence in about 3 years."