Man Who Killed DC Resident, Left Body In Car For 3 Days, Sentenced

SILVER SPRING, MD — A Silver Spring man was sentenced Friday for the death of a man whose body was left in a car in Southeast Washington, D.C., federal prosecutors said.

Jordan Jones, 23, was sentenced to three years in prison and five years of supervised release for voluntary manslaughter while armed for the killing of Noel Nicol in Southeast D.C. in October 2021

Jones pleaded guilty on Dec. 5, 2023, to the voluntary manslaughter charge in the death of Nicol, an acquaintance, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia.

According to court documents, Jones met Nicol in Southeast D.C. on Oct. 11, 2021, the day after Jones arranged to purchase a 9mm handgun — the same caliber as the murder weapon. Nicol was last seen by family and friends on the afternoon of Oct. 11, 2021.

The police found Nicol’s body in the driver’s seat of a car parked on Savannah Place S.E. three days later when they were investigating an anonymous tip.

Officers did not find the murder weapon or eyewitnesses, but detectives obtained surveillance video footage from the vicinity of the vehicle for a three-day period that led to Jones being named as a suspect in the murder. According to prosecutors, he admitted to 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, the news release said.