HARVEY, La. —
The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office is investigating a deadly stabbing of a New Orleans Police Department employee Friday morning.
The stabbing happened in the parking lot of a hotel in the 2200 block of the Westbank Expressway, according to the sheriff.
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Sheriff Joseph Lopinto said Yolanda Dillion, who was a budget admin in the fiscal department for the NOPD, was driving for Uber when she picked up a man named Brandon Jacobs.
Jacobs was staying at the Travel Lodge hotel.
Lopinto said Jacobs admitted to waking up and “wanting to kill somebody.”
Jacobs told the sheriff’s office that he stabbed Dillion and then filmed the aftermath and published it to Facebook before walking back to his hotel room.
Lopinto said Jacobs is in custody and faces a second-degree murder charge.
Superintendent Shaun Ferguson said Dillion worked with the NOPD for the past 10 years. He described her as quiet and a “little giant” in the fiscal department for the force.
He said Dillion’s family is devastated, and that those who worked with her at the NOPD will miss her dearly.