Harrowing 9-1-1 call played in court of fatal shooting

IN A HARROWING 9-1-1 call played in court yesterday, a Northeast Philadelphia father can be heard screaming that a man was in his daughter's bedroom.

In a panic-stricken voice, Charles Jordan, 41, begs the dispatcher to send help. He is then heard yelling at the man in the room, "Stay down! I told you, down!"

Jordan, who lived with his 20-year-old daughter, Brenda, in an apartment on Axe Factory Road near Stamford Street, told the dispatcher he owns a .38-caliber gun, and is heard yelling to the other man: "I'm telling you, don't move! . . . I will shoot you."

The other man, at one point, says in the background: "I need to stand up."

Soon after, Jordan fired a shot, and his daughter's screams shrill in the background. "He moved, he moved. He got up. I shot him," Jordan tells the dispatcher.

After a preliminary hearing, Jordan was held for trial on charges of voluntary manslaughter and possession of an instrument of crime in the Sept. 15 shooting death of Marc Carrion, 32.

During the almost 5-minute call, made at 11:35 that night, played in court by Assistant District Attorney Joanne Pescatore, Jordan repeatedly tells the dispatcher he shot the man because the man "started to move."

Then, Jordan and his daughter are heard yelling to each other.

"Do you know him?" the father asks his daughter.

"He's my boyfriend," she says.

"My daughter must know him," Jordan tells the dispatcher.

"I don't know him . . . I had no idea who this guy is," Jordan says on the call.

Breathing heavily, Jordan then tells the dispatcher that police have arrived at his apartment building, and the call ends.

After hearing the call, Municipal Judge James DeLeon uttered, "That's crazy."

Police Officer William Trenwith of the Crime Scene Unit testified that he went to Jordan's apartment the morning after the shooting. About five to 10 packets of heroin were found on the daughter's bed, he said.

Trenwith also said there was no sign of forced entry into the apartment, and the windows in the daughter's bedroom "weren't opened for some time," as evidenced by the cobwebs on them.

Albert Chu, the city's acting deputy chief medical examiner, testified that Carrion was shot once in the back of his head, and based on gunpowder particles on his head, it appeared the gun was within 2 feet when it was fired. He said Carrion had PCP in his body.

Jordan, dressed in a blue-collared shirt, tie and gray slacks, sat firm at the defense table during the hearing. He has no prior criminal history and is not in custody after having posted 10 percent of $15,000 bail. As he and his supporters left the courtroom, his attorney, Todd Henry, said Jordan would have no comment.

Of Jordan's actions that night, Henry said Jordan had never seen Carrion before and thought Carrion had sneaked into the apartment through a window in the daughter's bedroom. "He's scared for his safety, his daughter's safety," the attorney said.

Carrion's mother, Gloria Moyett, said her son had lived with her, just around the corner from Jordan's apartment. Jordan "didn't even ask my son who he was" before he shot him, she said.

Pescatore and Henry said Brenda Jordan's whereabouts are not known.