The body of Jaquan Campbell lies on Ulmer Street after he was
shot to death on Oct. 1. Photo by Robert Stridiron
Three indicted for
College Pt. murder
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
The three men allegedly
connected to a deadly
shooting at a College Point
parking lot last October have
been indicted for seconddegree
murder and additional
charges, prosecutors
announced on May 3.
Brooklyn residents
Brandon Lee, 24, Daijan
Palmer, 26, and Darvin
Guiteau, 24, are accused of
participating in the Oct.
1, 2018 murder of Jaquan
Campbell, 25, inside the
College Point multiplex
parking lot. According to
law enforcement sources,
the shooting stemmed from a
dispute involving Campbell
and the suspects at a
nearby strip club earlier
that morning.
“In a mob-styled hit,
the men accused in this
indictment went after an
entourage of four cars leaving
a strip club in Queens last
October,” Chief Assistant
District Attorney John Ryan
said on May 3. “This was a
brutal and calculated killing.
This kind of lawless gun
violence will not be tolerated
in our community.”
Authorities said the
trouble began early on the
morning of Oct. 1, 2018 at
Angels Strip Club, located at
32-17 College Point Blvd. in
Flushing. Published reports
indicated that Campbell
had been involved in an
altercation at the club before
leaving with his girlfriend.
At around 3:24 a.m. that
morning, prosecutors said,
Campbell and his girlfriend
were inside a black Lexus
being pursued by a black
BMW, occupied by four men,
three of whom were wearing
masks. The BMW driver
intentionally crashed into
the Lexus at the multiplex
parking lot, in the vicinity
of Ulmer Street and the
Whitestone Expressway.
Law enforcement sources
said that Campbell was able
to drive a couple of blocks,
then stopped to inspect the
damage. The BMW then
pulled up, and the four men
jumped out of the vehicle.
One of them pulled out a
gun and started firing at
Campbell near his car.
More than 40 rounds in
all were fired, according
to Ryan.
Campbell was hit multiple
times in the chest and later
died of his injuries. His
girlfriend was uninjured.
Following the gunfire, the
four men abandoned their
BMW and forced Campbell’s
companion out of the Lexus.
They then hopped into the
car and took off along Ulmer
Street to the intersection
of 120th Street and 26th
Avenue, where they ditched
the vehicle and fled.
Officers from the 109th
Precinct responded to the
incident and launched
an investigation with the
NYPD Queens North
Homicide Squad.
Detectives picked up
Palmer and Guiteau two
weeks later on Oct. 14, while
Lee was apprehended in
Miami, Florida a week later.
All three men remain held
without bail and must return
to court on May 20. They
each face up to 25 years to life
behind bars if convicted.
Ryan added that a
fourth man is currently in
custody out of state, and his
extradition back to Queens
is pending.
Alt-right leader outed
Nonprofi t exposes hate-monger with Flushing roots
The Southern Poverty Law Center says Flushing resident Joseph Jordan is a rampant alt-right activist
who marched in the infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va. back in 2017
Photo via Wikimedia Commons
BY CARLOTTA MOHAMED
One of the biggest
content creators in the
white supremacist altright
movement resides in
Flushing, according to the
Southern Poverty Law Center
(SPLC), a nonprofit watchdog.
Joseph Jordan, a 30-year-old
man from Flushing, adopted
the online pseudonym “Eric
Striker” since at least 2015
while concealing his identity
and pursuing a leadership role
in the world of organized hate,
according to an investigative
report from SPLC Hatewatch,
that conducted over a dozen
interviews with people
inside and outside of the
alt-right movement.
A 2013 Queens College
graduate with a history
degree, Jordan is described
as a man with “light olive
skin, slicked-back hair
and rockabilly sideburns,”
according to the report.
“I cannot 100 percent prove
that he’s in Flushing right
now. The last known address
he had was in Flushing
and his family lives there,”
Southern Poverty Law Center
investigative reporter Michael
Edison Hayden told QNS. “If
he is supporting himself in
someway I don’t know of, he
could be somewhere staying
at a friend’s house around the
area. I just don’t know when
he’s home or not or how he’s
supporting himself.”
Jordan’s neighbors have
seen him in Flushing recently,
but they don’t see him as
much on the block, according
to Hayden.
“We know that his mother
and father is half Latinx,
either their first or last
name. A neighbor told me
that she knew the family
very well … that his mother
is an immigrant from South
America,” said Hayden.
Using his Striker persona
online, Jordan created a
platform focusing his rhetoric
on his desire to drive Jewish
people out of America and
warning his audience against
the threat of an “underground
homosexual culture,”
according to the report. His
targets included Jewish
people and members of the
LGBTQ community.
Jordan, as Striker,
blamed Jewish people for
the existence of LGBTQ
people and baselessly
equated same-sex attraction
or transgenderism with
pedophilia. Using his Twitter
handle, @Strikerisnazbol,
Jordan called another user
“LGBTP,” switching out the
letter “Q” for a queer with the
letter “P” for pedophile — a
slur commonly found on altright
forums such as 4chan,
according to the report.
Jordan’s Twitter account
posts frequently about the
people he believes are trying
to destroy the alt-right,
said Hayden.
Jordan is also the host of
a downloadable audio show
called “Strike and Mike” with
an influential alt-right figure,
Michael Peinovich, who
hosted his own podcast “The
Right Stuff.” Additionally,
Jordan contributed to over 700
posts to the Neo-Nazi website,
“The Daily Stormer” and
appeared on hundreds of altright
podcasts across dozens
of shows, the report said.
Additionally, Jordan
hosted an anti-Semitic
YouTube livestream show
called “The People’s Square”
under his Striker persona,
along with a co-host who goes
by the pseudonym “Borzoi
Boskovic.” Jordan’s podcasts
and livestreams were pulling
over $1,000 per month and
more, said Hayden.
According to the SPLC,
Jordan also participated in
the deadly “Unite the Right”
rally in Charlottesville, VA,
in August 2017. Jordan (hiding
his face behind sunglasses and
a handkerchief) and Peinovich
also participated together in
the anti-immigration rally
staged in front of the White
House in December 2017.
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