New Year’s resolutions for Jordan Thompson? They simply wouldn’t mean anything since he’s dead anyway. This is the harsh truth that Jordan Thompson faced Sunday morning when shots rang out within an after-hours club that has now been deemed illegal by authorities. Jordan Thompson is only 31 years old and hailed from Bridgeport; likely, none of Sunday morning’s gunplay was part of his plan for the year.
Violence, eventually proven to be lethal, breaks out at an illicit Noble Avenue nightclub
Thompson was in one of these types of underground bars down on Noble Avenue, and something went wrong about 3 a.m. Sunday. See, you can recognize these types of bars all around Bridgeport—that’s how people know where they are, just nobody ever mentions them. The shooting happened in the 900 block of one of these types of unlicensed bars that wasn’t staffed with any type of security.
The wail of the sirens from the cop cars echoed through the streets, but the onlookers scurried away like cockroaches when the light goes on in the kitchen at night. The Cops caught Thompson expiring in the after-hours joint. Hurrying to the hospital in the ambulance was making a last-ditch effort to outwait the clock, but sometimes it’s impossible to outrun death, no matter how fast you run, when there are bullets inside of you.
First murder of the year highlights failures of regulations
This was just another shooting in a city that has experienced far too many of them over the years. But this shooting was the first homicide of 2026. It was early enough that people had not yet had a chance to become complacent with signing 2026 on a check. Detective Harper of the Homicide Unit is handling this case now. His hands are full of the problems that are normally associated with an illicit business like this. Perhaps someone realizes that the face of the shooter is now known to them.
“This seemed to be a site where there was an illegal club, and police observed a lot of people leaving this site,” said Shawnna White with the City of Miami Office of Emergency Management.
What Harper understands is that for them to solve this murder, the public has to come out from behind their fear and let them in on what they noticed that night. It is because someone pulled the trigger that ended Thompson’s life, someone who is possibly sitting in their house tonight thinking that tomorrow morning, it would surely go down in history as a perfect murder. Harper requires witnesses who are afraid, but are going to do the right thing for Thompson’s family because their loved one isn’t going home tonight.
Eyewitnesses are needed in a homicide investigation, police say
Thompson’s family should not have to wonder whether the man responsible for altering their lives so dramatically is going to be the one to add up the cost of the actions that occurred down at the sleazy club late Sunday morning. Harper thinks that he has a pretty good idea of what has to happen in the coming days and that the public has to come forward with information, which might just blow this case wide open.
“Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Thomas Harper at (203) 581-5239,” said police in their press release.
All morsels of detail are crucial to someone piecing together the final ending to someone’s life. The element that this is a homicide is precisely why there is such horrific concern with how these illegal businesses run with no care or concern for the residents of Bridgeport. Justice will now be served for the Thompson family, but residents of Bridgeport definitely deserve to witness a new year begin with blood not being on its streets, with a homicide solved.
