Lincoln Police Identify Couple Killed in Murder-Suicide

During a Monday morning news conference Lincoln Police released new details in a murder-suicide Friday in the Near South he Lincoln Police Department has identified the two people who were found dead inside a Near South neighborhood on Friday morning.

Police Chief Michon Morrow says officers were sent the the home near south 14th and Sumner streets at 10:45 a.m. for a welfare check. “When they entered, they found 51-year-old Sterling Jordan and 51-year-old Jennifer McCarther deceased on the floor of a bedroom,” Morrow says.

She says McCarther had multiple gunshot wounds and Jordan had one gunshot wound to the head. “It is heartbreaking and at the same time it is infuriating to know that her life was stolen by a senseless act of violence,” Morrow says. “The pain her family now has to carry is both unimaginable and absolutely unacceptable.”

Morrow says officers were first sent to the home around 4:00 Thursday afternoon to do a welfare check after Jordan failed to show up for work. Morrow says there was no sign of immediate danger so officers did not go inside.

When officers were called back to the home Friday morning to do a welfare check, they went inside. Police released a statement and photo from McCarther’s daughter who said her mother was a beautiful soul, a mother of three, a daughter, a sister to seven and a grandmother of five. “She’ll never get the chance to see as they grow up,” the statement said.

“Losing her has left a hole in our hearts that will never be filled, but her love and light continue to live on through all of us who are blessed to know her. Sometimes in the search for love we end up in places that bring us more harm than healing and too often it costs everything.”

McCarther’s daughter says she is sharing her mother’s story and picture not just to honor her, but to shine a light on the reality of domestic violence. “If her story can help even one woman find the strength to leave before it’s too late, then her memory will continue to protect and inspire others.”

McCarther is the third woman in Lincoln to be killed this year in a murder-suicide.