Suspected shooter in JC man's death surrenders

JERSEY CITY --Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said on Wednesday that Barshay Jacobs, 21, (seen in photo) a suspect in the Jan. 8 shooting death of Jersey City resident Ronald Jordan, surrendered earlier in the day. DeFazio said Jacobs surrendered in the courtroom of Superior Court Judge Kevin Callahan, which DeFazio said is not unusual.

DeFazio said investigators believe Jacobs was one of the shooters of Jordan, 21, who was sitting in a Wegman Parkway home around 3:15 a.m. on the morning of Jan. 8. That's when two men entered the house and allegedly opened gunfire on Jordan, who died minutes later as a result of a gunshot to the head.

The other suspect in Jordan's murder, Dante Bland, was apprehended on Jan. 14 and was charged with murder, possession of a firearm, and possession of a firearm for an unlawful purpose.

DeFazio said Jacobs, whose last-known address was Ocean Avenue, faces the same charges as Bland. Jacobs was also issued the same $1 million cash bail as Bland.

Jordan's death was the first homicide in Jersey City this year. The second one took place later that day when Jordan's friend, Ezekiel Sims, 31, was shot dead around 11 p.m. in a stairwell in the Marion Gardens housing complex.

DeFazio said while the shootings are related, the ongoing investigation into Sims' and Jordan's murders has not established the "precise relationship between the two shootings." But DeFazio did say there was a "retaliatory aspect" to not just the Sims and Jordan murders, but other shootings that go back to last year.

Anyone with information on the Jordan and Sims shootings can contact the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office at (201) 915-1345. - Ricardo Kaulessar

Two friends are shot dead on the same day, 20 hours apart.

Monday, January 11, 2010
By CHARLES HACK
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

At 3:15 a.m. Friday, armed gunmen burst into a Wegman Parkway house in Jersey City and unloaded on 21-year-old Ronald Jordan who was watching TV.

Jordan became Hudson County's first homicide victim in 2010, but he certainly wasn't the last.

At 11:30 p.m. later that day, Jordan's friend, Ezekiel Sims, 31, of Stevens Avenue, was shot once in the head execution style in a stairwell at the Marion Gardens housing complex where Jordan lived at 69 Dales Ave.

Family members described the two men as close friends.

Given where Sims was shot, he would have walked past a shrine dedicated to his friend moments before his own life ended.

A man who identified himself as Jordan's uncle said yesterday he saw Sims get shot. He declined to share any details about the shooting and didn't want to be identified. He said the shootings had to do with "retaliation."

Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said the killings appeared to be premeditated and there was "interrelation with some homicides last year in Jersey City.

"Law enforcement knows that there is a confluence of certain individuals in a number of homicide cases that have occurred - including these two - and that has been recognized and one avenue that we will take in the investigation," DeFazio said.

"A lot of people may have information but if they are not willing to cooperate it makes it all the more difficult to get this violence under control," he added.

Lisa Morris, the aunt of Sims and a resident at Marion Gardens, said Sims had been playing video games with his nephew Friday night. Five minutes after he left her apartment, she got a call from her daughter saying Sims had been shot.

"I don't know why this happened," Morris said yesterday. Sims, she said, was "very funny...happy go lucky." He always had a smile on his face, she said.

Sims was released from state prison Aug. 20 after serving 28 months for dealing drugs near a school property, state records said.

Anyone with information about these murders should call the Prosecutor's Office Homicide Unit at (201) 915-1345.

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Murdered Jersey City man remembered as "goofy" and "loved"

By Amy Sara Clark/The Jersey Journal
January 08, 2010


Ronald Jordan, 21, who was fatally shot at a friends home early this morning, is remembered by family members as "goofy" and loving.

The man who was gunned down while watching television at a friend?s house early this morning was a loving jokester who was always there for his family and friends, his grieving family said this afternoon.

Ronald Jordan, 21, of Dales Avenue in Jersey City, was shot multiple times while socializing with friends at 92 Wegman Parkway at about 3:15 a.m. by two gunmen, said Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio.

?He was goofy ? he loved to make people laugh,? his sister Latonya Jordan said while gathered with about a dozen family members at Jordan?s grandmother?s Dales Avenue apartment this afternoon.

Jordan was a doting father to his 4-year-old son and 7-month-old daughter, and always there for his family and friends, his sister Latonya Jordan said.

?Whatever you wanted you got it,? she said.

Family members said Jordan had recently returned to Dickenson High School and was planning to move into his first apartment Monday.

?He was going to graduate in June,? said cousin Marqutta Brown.

?We loved him,? cousin Evelyn Brown summed up simply.

The gunmen who shot Jordan are described as "young adults." It is not clear whether one or both of them fired shots, said rd DeFazio. Jordan had wounds to both his head and chest, said Hudson County First Assistant Prosecutor Guy Gregory.

He was taken to Jersey City Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 3:40 a.m., DeFazio said. Police don't yet know the motive for the shooting, but it seems clear that Jordan was the intended target, DeFazio said.

Meanwhile, the family is struggling to come to terms with the murder.

?I haven?t accepted it,? said Jordan?s aunt Yvonne Jeter. ?He was always around, everyday. And now he?s gone.?
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Jersey City man shot dead while visiting friend's Wegman Parkway home, prosecutor says

By Amy Sara Clark/The Jersey Journal
January 08, 2010, 12:08PM

Jersey City police officers are at the scene of a fatal shooting at 92 Wegman Parkway this morning.
A Jersey City 21-year-old was fatally shot while visiting a friend's Wegman Parkway home early this morning, officials said.

Ronald Jordan, of Dales Avenue, was watching television with a group of people in the first-floor apartment at 92 Wegman Parkway at about 3:15 a.m. when two armed men came into the apartment and shot him multiple times with a semi automatic handgun, said Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio.

The men were described as "young adults." It is not clear whether one or both of them fired shots, DeFazio said.

Jordan was taken to Jersey City Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 3:40 a.m., DeFazio said.

Police don't yet know the motive for the shooting, but it seems clear that Jordan was the intended target, DeFazio said.