Mother still searching for answers 1 year after son’s shooting death on Midpoint Bridge

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Jadwin Carrion killed on the Midpoint Bridge
24-year-old Jadwin Carrion was killed on the Midpoint Bridge on May 9, 2021.

A Cape Coral mother says her son was shot to death on the Midpoint Bridge in 2021 because his name was in documents related to the deadly 2016 Club Blu shooting, and she still wants answers.

24-year-old Jadwin Carrion was killed on the Midpoint Bridge on May 9, 2021, and although law enforcement hasn’t officially confirmed that his murder was tied to the Club Blu shooting, Carrion’s mother, Lorrieann Thurman, thinks it was related. Months before Carrion was killed, his name was listed on documents tied to the shooting, indicating that he may have been an intended target.

Thurman says his possible connection to that shooting may have been what got him shot to death inside a car on Mother’s Day of 2021.

“If you knew my son was a target, why would you slander his name in that paperwork?” Thurman said. “Why wouldn’t you ask the people, take him somewhere, put him in hiding, if you know someone is out to kill him why would you tell me I should’ve gotten my son out of town?”

Although Kierra Russ, one of the five suspects in the Club Blu trial, was found guilty on charges related to that mass shooting, Thurman still wants to know what happened to her son.

“It’s hard every day, because we never want, as parents, to bury our children,” Thurman said. “And if we have to bury them, let them die in their sleep, not because someone has taken initiative to play God… now I’m a mother that has vengeance for anybody that commits such a reckless crime.”

WINK News has reached out to the Cape Coral Police Department to find out if it has any suspects in Carrion’s shooting and, if so, if they have indicated that there is a tie to the Club Blu shooting. WINK is still waiting to hear back.

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