BREAKING NEWS IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. WE START WITH BREAKING NEWS TONIGHT. THIS JUST INTO OUR NEWSROOM. ONE OF TWO PEOPLE ACCUSED IN THE DEATH OF A MAN IN TARRANT HAS BEEN TAKEN INTO CUSTODY. WE WANT TO GET RIGHT OVER TO 米兰体育 13. EMMA. OWEN. EMMA, WHAT鈥橲 THE LATEST INFORMATION? WELL, SHERI AND GUY, ACCORDING TO THE JEFFERSON COUNTY SHERIFF鈥橲 OFFICE WEBSITE, JHA MORRIS RUSSELL HAS BEEN TAKEN INTO CUSTODY. NOW, THIS IS THE MUGSHOT FROM THE WEBSITE. IT SAYS HE WAS BOOKED INTO THE JEFFERSON COUNTY JAIL THIS AFTERNOON. HE IS CHARGED WITH CAPITAL MURDER. NOW, RUSSELL AND EDDIE JORDAN JUNIOR ARE ACCUSED IN THE DEATH OF BUFORD WHITE IN JANUARY. AND AS GUY AND SHERRI WILSON EXPLAINED, THE SEARCH CONTINUES FOR THE OTHER SUSPECT. BACK TO YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANKS, EMMA. LAW ENFORCEMENT ARE IN OUR AREA ACTIVELY STILL LOOKING FOR THE OTHER MURDER SUSPECT, EDDIE JORDAN JUNIOR. HE鈥橲 THE 19 YEAR OLD WHO ESCAPED POLICE CUSTODY LAST WEEK. 米兰体育 13 S MAGDALA LOUISSAINT SPOKE WITH THE VICTIM鈥橲 SISTER ABOUT HER FEELINGS ON THE INCIDENT. BUFORD鈥橲 SISTER TELLS ME THEY WERE HAPPY WHEN THEY LEARNED ABOUT JORDAN鈥橲 ARREST BECAUSE THEY WERE THIS MUCH CLOSER TO GETTING JUSTICE, BUT THAT WAS TAKEN AWAY FROM THEM WHEN JORDAN ESCAPED POLICE CUSTODY HERE FROM UAB HOSPITAL. IT鈥橲 BEEN FOUR DAYS AND COUNTING SINCE BUFORD WHITE鈥橲 SISTER, CINDY HERBERT, WAS TOLD THE SUSPECT IN HER BROTHER鈥橲 MURDER ESCAPED POLICE CUSTODY. TARRANT POLICE BELIEVE HE AND TAVARIS RUSSELL JUNIOR ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHITE鈥橲 DEATH. HE WAS SHOT AND KILLED NEAR A HOME ON MOUNTAIN DRIVE IN JANUARY. LAST WEDNESDAY, THE U.S. MARSHALS GULF COAST REGIONAL FUGITIVE TASK FORCE CAUGHT THE 19 YEAR OLD. AFTER A SHORT CHASE. HE WAS TAKEN TO UAB HOSPITAL, THEN ESCAPED. I DON鈥橳 KNOW THAT THERE WAS ONLY ONE OFFICER THERE. I DON鈥橳 KNOW ANYTHING BEYOND THE FACT THAT HE ESCAPED AT THE HOSPITAL AT UAB. BUT SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE SO THAT THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN AGAIN. THIS SHOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED IN THE FIRST PLACE. WHITE鈥橲 SISTER TELLS ME SHE鈥橲 AFRAID TO SHOW HER FACE BECAUSE THE SUSPECTED KILLERS ARE STILL OUT THERE. I FEEL LIKE THERE鈥橲 A POSSIBILITY, NUMBER ONE, THAT HE鈥橲 LONG GONE. I FEEL LIKE THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN OUR ONE SHOT. HE鈥橲 HAD SO MUCH TIME TO GET FURTHER AWAY. NOW, AT THIS POINT AND I鈥橫 ABSOLUTELY. I鈥橫 JUST LIVING JUST ABSOLUTELY LIVID. I WANT ANSWERS AND NONE ARE COMING. I ASKED HERBERT IF HER BROTHER KNEW THE SUSPECTS. SHE SAYS HER FAMILY IS NOT CLEAR ON THOSE DETAILS. I HEARD AND LEARNED FROM U.S. MARSHALS TODAY. JORDAN HAS TWO FELONY WARRANTS FOR CAPITAL MURDER IN TWO CASES IN JEFFERSON COUNTY, ONE IN TARRANT AND THE OTHER IN BIRMINGHAM. WE REACHED OUT TO BIRMINGHAM POLICE TO CONFIRM WHICH MURDER THIS IS, AND WE HAVE NOT HEARD BACK FROM THEM YET.
'This should have never happened:' Victim's sister talks while manhunt continues for suspected murderer who escaped police custody
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A teenager charged in the murder of a Tarrant man is finally behind bars as the search for another teen charged in the same deadly shooting continues. Javaris Russell Jr., 19, was arrested Monday afternoon, roughly a month after a multi-agency search for him and Eddie Jordan Jr., 19, began. That search became even more critical after Jordan escaped police custody while at the hospital.Buford White's sister, Cyndi Hebert, says she is angry and wants answers from law enforcement after learning Jordan ran away from police. Hebert said she's afraid her brother's suspected killers are still out there and would rather speak with 米兰体育 13 on the phone than show her face for an on-camera interview. Video below: Victim's sister talks while manhunt continues for suspected murderer who escaped police custody鈥淚 feel like there's a possibility, number one, that he's long gone. I feel like that might have been our one shot. He's had so much time to get further away at this point. I'm just livid, absolutely livid. I want answers and none are coming,鈥� Hebert said. Hebert describes her brother as funny and one who loved his family, including his children. His nickname was Pete. The 36-year-old was the youngest of the four siblings. 鈥淣ow that Pete's gone, we will never be whole again. We're three-quarters now. We'll never be whole again. There's always that emptiness there. Our baby brother 鈥� just gone,鈥� Hebert said. In January, Tarrant police found White dead in front of his home on Mountain Drive.On Wednesday, April 23, a Tarrant police detective called Hebert to say Eddie Jordan Jr. was arrested for her brother's death.Police officers believe Jordan and Jarvaris Russell, 19, are responsible for White's death.The U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force captured Jordan after a short chase. Hours later, she'd get a call that Jordan escaped police custody while at UAB Hospital. 米兰体育 13 asked, 鈥淲hen you got the phone call from Tarrant police, what did they tell you?"Hebert replied, "He told me they took Eddie to the hospital because the county would not take Eddie unless he'd been the hospital because Eddie was claiming a foot or ankle injury. I can't remember which one. They said he escaped from the hospital and that is the only information I've been given. I don't know if there was only one officer there. I don't know beyond that he escaped the hospital 鈥� UAB, while he was there, but something needs to be done so that this does not happen again. This should have never happened in the first place.鈥� 米兰体育 13 asked if Buford knew the suspects.Hebert said the family is not clear on the details.The U.S. Marshals Service said Eddie Jordan Jr. has two felony warrants for two separate capital murder charges in Jefferson County 鈥� one in Tarrant for White's death and the other in Birmingham. We鈥檝e reached out to Birmingham police to find out which murder he鈥檚 connected to, we haven鈥檛 gotten that information confirmed yet.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A teenager charged in the murder of a Tarrant man is finally behind bars as the search for another teen charged in the same deadly shooting continues.
Javaris Russell Jr., 19, was arrested Monday afternoon, roughly a month after a multi-agency search for him and Eddie Jordan Jr., 19, began. That search became even more critical after Jordan escaped police custody while at the hospital.
Buford White's sister, Cyndi Hebert, says she is angry and wants answers from law enforcement after learning Jordan ran away from police. Hebert said she's afraid her brother's suspected killers are still out there and would rather speak with 米兰体育 13 on the phone than show her face for an on-camera interview.
Video below: Victim's sister talks while manhunt continues for suspected murderer who escaped police custody
鈥淚 feel like there's a possibility, number one, that he's long gone. I feel like that might have been our one shot. He's had so much time to get further away at this point. I'm just livid, absolutely livid. I want answers and none are coming,鈥� Hebert said.
Hebert describes her brother as funny and one who loved his family, including his children. His nickname was Pete. The 36-year-old was the youngest of the four siblings.
鈥淣ow that Pete's gone, we will never be whole again. We're three-quarters now. We'll never be whole again. There's always that emptiness there. Our baby brother 鈥� just gone,鈥� Hebert said.
In January, Tarrant police found White dead in front of his home on Mountain Drive.
On Wednesday, April 23, a Tarrant police detective called Hebert to say Eddie Jordan Jr. was arrested for her brother's death.
Police officers believe Jordan and Jarvaris Russell, 19, are responsible for White's death.
The U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force captured Jordan after a short chase.
Hours later, she'd get a call that Jordan escaped police custody while at UAB Hospital.
米兰体育 13 asked, 鈥淲hen you got the phone call from Tarrant police, what did they tell you?"
Hebert replied, "He told me they took Eddie to the hospital because the county would not take Eddie unless he'd been the hospital because Eddie was claiming a foot or ankle injury. I can't remember which one. They said he escaped from the hospital and that is the only information I've been given. I don't know if there was only one officer there. I don't know beyond that he escaped the hospital 鈥� UAB, while he was there, but something needs to be done so that this does not happen again. This should have never happened in the first place.鈥�
米兰体育 13 asked if Buford knew the suspects.
Hebert said the family is not clear on the details.
The U.S. Marshals Service said Eddie Jordan Jr. has two felony warrants for two separate capital murder charges in Jefferson County 鈥� one in Tarrant for White's death and the other in Birmingham. We鈥檝e reached out to Birmingham police to find out which murder he鈥檚 connected to, we haven鈥檛 gotten that information confirmed yet.
