Jordan A Miller

Do you know who murdered Jordan?
Jordan A. Miller, a 20-year-old Black man described by those who knew him as quiet and kind, was just two weeks away from his 21st birthday when his life was violently taken. His family remembers him as a "good kid" who was not involved in gangs or drugs, making his sudden death all the more incomprehensible to them. His grandmother, Mary Ann Davis, has spoken of the unending nightmare his murder has been for their family, an open wound that has refused to heal with the passage of time.

The attack occurred on the night of June 5, 2013, at Jordan’s home at 633 Cummins Highway in Boston's Mattapan neighborhood. An unknown assailant fired nine shots through his first-floor bedroom window. Jordan was critically wounded in the assault and rushed to Faulkner Hospital for emergency medical care. Despite the efforts of doctors, he succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead the following day, June 6, 2013. The Boston Police Department immediately launched a homicide investigation into the shooting.

In the years following Jordan's death, the investigation has remained open, but no arrests have been made, and the case has grown cold. For his grandmother, the lack of progress has been a source of profound and lasting pain. "I really cannot sleep over three or four hours," Davis shared in an interview. "Sometimes, I feel like I can hear him calling or talking to me." She recounted the horror of that night, when her granddaughter ran to her house screaming that Jordan had been shot. Rushing to the scene, she was met with police tape and was later told at the hospital, "He's gone." Detectives assured her they were actively working the case, acknowledging that Jordan was a good kid whose murder they wanted to solve, but as of today, those words have brought no resolution.

A compelling, though unproven, theory has emerged that links Jordan's murder to the late Aaron Hernandez, a former tight end for the New England Patriots. Investigative journalists and law enforcement experts have suggested that Jordan may have been the victim of a tragic case of mistaken identity. This theory posits that the actual target was a man named Odin Lloyd, a semi-professional football player whom Hernandez would murder just twelve days after Jordan was killed. Lloyd and Jordan bore a striking physical resemblance and reportedly moved in similar social circles.

This hypothesis gained more traction with the publication of the book "Aaron Hernandez's Killing Fields" by investigative journalist Dylan Howard. The book includes testimony from an informant who claimed that on the night of Jordan's murder, Hernandez received an agitated phone call before telling his associates, "we got some shit to handle." Furthermore, Hernandez’s former cellmate, Kyle Kennedy, alleged that Hernandez would often joke about having "four bodies" to his name, one more than the three killings for which he was publicly tried. While law enforcement officials have noted that such a crime would fit Hernandez's pattern of violent behavior, he was never charged in connection with Jordan Miller's death. Hernandez was convicted of Odin Lloyd's murder in 2015 and died by suicide in his prison cell in April 2017 after being acquitted of a separate 2012 double homicide.

As of February 2014, the Suffolk District Attorney's office confirmed the investigation into Jordan Miller's homicide is still open, but no new details have been released. His family continues to live with the unanswered questions and the haunting reality of his unsolved murder. "You're just functioning — but you're really not functioning," his grandmother said, describing the impossible task of coping with such a loss. For a family and community still searching for justice, the case remains a painful and unresolved chapter in the city's history.