NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans Police Division worker who was once moonlighting as an Uber driving force was once stabbed to loss of life by way of a passenger in what a sheriff stated was once a random act of fatal violence.
Yolanda Dillion, 54, was once a fiscal analyst with the police division, New Orleans police leader Shaun Ferguson stated Friday. She was once stabbed a couple of instances Thursday afternoon in her automobile within the car parking zone of a resort in neighboring Jefferson Parish. She died later at a clinic.
Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joe Lopinto stated detectives labored with Uber to decide the id of her passenger, who have been picked up in New Orleans. They discovered him staying on the resort.
Lopinto stated Brandon Jacobs, 29, of Harvey, admitted to the killing.
“He said that he awoke the previous day morning and determined he was once going to kill somebody,” Lopinto stated right through a information convention with Ferguson on the sheriff’s administrative center in Gretna.
On-line information confirmed Jacobs was once being held with out bond on a second-degree homicide price. There was once no knowledge on whether or not he had an legal professional.
The sheriff stated Jacobs posted video of the aftermath of the stabbing on social media and government labored with Fb to have it taken down.
“We requested him in particular, ‘How did you select her?’ His reaction was once, ‘I didn’t select her, Uber picked her.’ Which means that she was once the random individual that picked him up that day,” Lopinto stated.
Ferguson, who’s retiring as the top of New Orleans’ Police Division on the finish of the yr, stated Dillion was once a 10-year worker of the dep.. He described her as quiet and humble, including that she did vital paintings for the dep..
“This was once simply one thing that indubitably blindsided everybody,” Ferguson stated.
Lopinto stated Jacobs is assumed to be from the New Orleans house at the start. He advised investigators he have been staying within the Seattle house however have been again within the New Orleans house for roughly seven months, Lopinto stated.