An employee for the New Orleans Police Department was fatally stabbed by a passenger while driving for Uber in her free time on Thursday, according to authorities. A suspect has been arrested.
Before the stabbing, the police department employee, 54-year-old Yolanda Dillion, had picked up a passenger in New Orleans who was headed to Jefferson Parish, Sheriff Joseph Lopinto shared.
The sheriff’s office shared that after the ride was completed, Dillion stopped the car, and the passenger “stabbed her repeatedly before leaving the vehicle,” the sheriff said.
The stabbing was reported just before 3 p.m. on Thursday, and sheriff’s deputies found Dillion wounded in her vehicle in a hotel’s parking lot. First responders brought her to a local hospital, where she died from the injuries, the sheriff’s office said.
Within hours of discovering Dillion, a suspect was arrested at the hotel. The suspect, 29-year-old Brandon Jacobs, has also admitted to the stabbing, the sheriff’s office said.
“He stated that he woke up yesterday morning and decided he was going to kill someone,” Lopinto said.
Jacobs is also accused of allegedly video taping Dillion as she sat dying in her car following the stabbing. He allegedly put the video onto his Facebook, Lopinto shared.
“He was in the back seat,” Lopinto said. “Stabbed her from behind. Exited the vehicle and just walked away casually.”
Jacobs, has been charged with second-degree murder.
At the New Orleans Police Department, Dillion worked as a financial budget analyst, Lopinto shared.
During a news conference on Friday, New Orleans Police Superintendent Shaun Ferguson said that the department’s fiscal unit is taking her killing “pretty hard.”
“She will be dearly missed,” Ferguson said. “She was quiet. She was humble. A quiet giant, I would say, because she meant a lot to this department, and it tore our employees up.”
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