Years Before His Own Death, Jordan Neely’s Mother Was Murdered By Her Boyfriend

Neely’s mother, Christie, was murdered at age 36 in 2007, according to The New York Daily News. “His moms died — she got killed too. And now him?! She got killed [by] her boyfriend. And now him? By somebody else? I don’t know what to say,” Neely’s father, Andre Zachery, told the outlet.
Christie’s dead body was founded inside a suitcase near a Bronx highway, as The Daily News reported. Neely was only 18 years old at the time of his mother’s untimely passing. Testifying at the murder trial at that time, Neely said his mother and her boyfriend, Shawn Southerland, fought every day in their apartment leading up to her death. In 2012, Southerland was convicted of strangling Christie; he was sentenced to 30 years in prison.