A Silver Spring man was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison for the killing of an 18-year-old in Southeast Washington, D.C., in October 2021, the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia has announced.
Jordan Jones, 23, pleaded guilty Dec. 5, 2023, to voluntary manslaughter while armed for fatally shooting Noel Nicol of Silver Spring, the office said Saturday in a press release. In addition to 13 years in prison, Jones was sentenced to five years of supervised release.
Todd S. Baldwin, an attorney for Jones, told MoCo360 Monday that he had no comment on Friday’s sentencing.
According to the release, Jones met with Nicol in Southeast D.C. on Oct. 11, 2021, a day after Jones “arranged to purchase a 9 mm handgun.” The release stated that the handgun was the same caliber as the weapon used to shoot Nicol.
Nicol was last seen by family and friends on the afternoon of Oct. 11 and officers with the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., did not find his body until Oct. 14 when they were investigating an anonymous tip, according to the release. Police discovered Nicol’s body in the driver’s seat of his parked car on Savannah Place SE.
According to a May 2022 department press release, officers responded to the report of an unconscious person. When police arrived at the scene, they found Nicol unresponsive and “suffering from an apparent gunshot wound.”
After finding Nicol, police were not able to locate a weapon or eyewitnesses, according to the release from the U.S. attorney’s office. However, police were able to develop Jones as the suspect in the shooting by reviewing surveillance video footage from the vicinity of the vehicle over a three-day period.
On May 17, 2022, officers with the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force–part of the U.S. Marshals Service–arrested Jones, who was initially charged with first-degree murder while armed, D.C. police said.
In Jones’s post-arrest interview, he admitted to being in the car at the time of the shooting and that he and Nicol “struggled over a gun,” according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
According to the Washington Post, Jones was on parole for an armed robbery conviction at the time of the fatal shooting.