Mother’s push for answers continues year after son’s death; son was targeted in Club Blu shooting

Reporter: Gail Levy Writer: Melissa Montoya
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Jadwin “JC” Carrion was found shot to death inside a vehicle on Cape Coral’s Midpoint Bridge on May 9. (CREDIT: Courtesy of Lorrieann Thurman)

It’s been nearly one year of sleepless nights for Lorrieann Thurman.

For almost a year she has gone without justice for the killing of her son Jadwin Carrion, who was shot and killed on the Midpoint Bridge on Mother’s Day 2021.

“They say with time it gets easier, but for us mothers who lose our children in a critical way from somebody else’s hands, it’s hard,” Thurman said.

Six years before earlier, authorities said Carrion was targeted in the Club Blu shooting that killed 18-year-old Stef’an Strawder and 14-year-old Sean Archilles and injured 14 others.

On Tuesday, jurors found Kierra Russ guilty in the slayings. She was the first of five defendants to face a jury in the mass shooting. While Russ did not fire a gun that night in July of 2016, prosecutors successfully argued she served as a lookout and told the shooters members of an opposing gang were at the party.

Thurman said her son’s connection to the Club Blu shooting is what got him killed on the Midpoint Bridge. It happened just months after a police affidavit listed him as a gang member of the “Bottom Boys,” the rivals of the 1Way gang accused of doing the shooting at Club Blu.

“He wasn’t in a gang, those was guys that he grew up with so that means when I come in contact with the women in my life that I grew up with that were in a gang? No that doesn’t mean that. It doesn’t mean that,” Thurman said.

Gang or not, a sliver of justice is served.

“No one told you to pick up that phone and tip anyone off. So no I don’t feel any sympathy, any at all,” Thurman said. “I never want a mother to feel that pain. I never want someone to say your son is dead.”

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