
A video was uploaded on the internet where an Uber driver named Yolanda Dillon was murdered by a passenger. It was found that Yolanda Dillon was a 54-year-old woman who was a survivor of breast cancer.
She used to live with Edna, her mother, who is surviving cancer and is currently in her 80s. Dillon used to participate in her church and was working with NOPD as a fiscal budget analyst. She was studying to get a Ph.D. in sociology.
Yolanda Dillon would drive Uber before Christmas arrived as she wanted to make extra money to buy gifts for her family and children at her church. It was found that her church was St. Paul the Apostle in New Orleans East.
She would live a life well-balanced, but the 54-year-old woman died after being killed by a man who woke up on Thursday and decided to kill someone.
A 29-year-old Brandon Jacobs was arrested for killing Uber driver Yolanda Dillon. In the interrogation, Brandon revealed that he had decided to kill someone and that someone turned out to be an Uber driver.
The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office said Brandon had planned to call and kill an Uber driver, but Brandon realized that he would be stuck at a further distance after killing the driver, so he decided to kill the driver who brought him on a return trip.
The driver who brought him on the return trip was Yolanda Dillon. NOPD Superintendent Shaun Ferguson shared a statement in which he said Yolanda worked with them for over ten years and the people who she worked with were shocked to hear her death news.
Who would miss Yolanda Dillon the most?
No one loves a child more than the child’s mother. After the tragic murder of Yolanda Dillon, it is her mother, Edna, who would miss her daughter. In an interview, she cried out while talking about her daughter.
Edna said, “My only child. I ain’t have no other. When your child leaves in the morning, you expect to see them come back. You can’t just take somebody’s life, somebody, who not doing you nothing.”
Edna said she wasn’t aware of the fact that her daughter was working in Uber as a driver to earn extra cash. But the police department said that Yolanda was trying different ways to take care of her mother and children.
She said, “She took very good care. She made my groceries and cooked and bought everything. She paid all my bills and everything. He just left me with nobody.”
All members of Dillon’s church were grieving after her death. St. Paul’s. Pastor of St. Paul’s, Father Charles Ndumbi, shared a statement in which he said Dillon was a caring person.
He said she always used to ask others if they wanted her help, but never focused on herself and how she was suffering. He also said that whenever Yolanda would come to the church, all the children would come around her as if they loved her.
Ndumbi added he was shocked after hearing her death news. He said the church would help Yolanda’s mother during this difficult phase in her life.
Ndumbi said, “We never know when it will be the time for anyone to go, but going just in this manner, sometimes we ask God why. Only God knows why it happens.”
Brandon Jacobs Uber video
Brandon Jacobs is arrested for killing Dillon. He confessed that he murdered the Uber driver, Yolanda Dillon, as he had planned to kill someone that day.
It was found that he was also the person who had uploaded her death video on the internet. Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joe Lopinto said he immediately made a call to Facebook and removed the video. Jacobs is currently facing second-degree murder counts.
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