Man now faces 2 capital murder charges

Police arrest Pearland 21-year-old in death of robbed League City resident

Police in League City have linked a man accused in one homicide to the killing last spring of a man who was followed home from a Houston restaurant, robbed and shot in his garage.

Devan Jordon, 21, of Pearland was arrested Friday in the June 11 slaying of Jeffrey Johnson, who was robbed at his League City home after dining out with his wife. Jordon had followed the couple home for more than 30 miles from the Capital Grille on Westheimer, where they had dinner, according to police.

Lt. Michael Buffington said police believe Jordon was involved in several Galleria-area robberies aimed at stealing high-end jewelry.

“That’s been the (modus operandi) on all these robberies up there,” Buffington said, adding that police believe Jordon and others would target patrons at upscale restaurants and follow them home.

Jordon’s arrest comes four months after a similar crime, the killing of a New Orleans police officer and another man on the patio of Grotto Ristorante, also in the Galleria area. In that case, three men shot and killed a vacationing lawman, Everett Briscoe, and a friend during an attempted robbery. Three men have been charged in connection with those killings.

Buffington said Johnson’s wife had gone inside by the time Jordon and two others allegedly confronted her husband in a garage. She heard a commotion — thinking that her husband had mistakenly knocked over their motorcycle — and stepped outside to find him on the ground with a gunshot wound and to see at least one suspect fleeing. Johnson died hours later at a hospital.

Buffington said Jordon’s DNA was found at the scene of the crime and that he had rented a white Mercedes SUV seen near the Johnson home on the night of his death.

Court records show Jordon has also been linked to a string of aggravated robberies and home invasions.

Ahead of the Memorial Day weekend, authorities allege, Jordon shot and killed Joshua Sandoval during an attempted robbery at his Rice Military townhome. Jordon was charged in July with capital murder in that death and held on $500,000 bail through late November.

His lawyer, Letitia Quinones, requested that a judge lower Jordon’s bail, but that motion was denied. In later court docu

ments, Quinones said that “the defendant will attempt to make current bond.” He was released that same week.

He was ordered to wear an ankle monitor, which is how Houston police, whose officers made the arrest in Johnson’s slaying, knew where to find him, Buffington said.

In March, police arrested Jordon on an evading charge after he crashed into a tree during a chase, according to court records. A search of the vehicle revealed an AR-15-style pistol with a 60-round magazine.

“The rifle had a brass catcher attached to it, which gives it the capability to catch all the expended rounds that the defendant fires and prevents any evidence from being left at any shooting scene,” an investigator wrote in court documents. Jordon walked out of the Harris County Jail in April on $5,000 bail related to the evading charge.

Jordan is now being held at the jail and is slated to be transferred to Galveston County to face the latest capital murder charge.

Court records related to Sandoval’s death were not available.