A Norfolk man is headed back to prison after he pistol-whipped and fatally shot a man in 2020 in a rage of jealousy.
Malcolm Jamaal Jorden, 31, was sentenced Friday to serve 25 years and three months in prison for shooting and killing 29-year-old Jonathan Lee Bassett in 2020 and for violating his probation from an unrelated 2014 shooting.
In October, Jorden agreed to plead guilty to second-degree murder and be sentenced to a maximum of 18 years in prison, and Judge Everett A. Martin Jr. accepted the agreement.
Today, Judge Martin sentenced Jorden to serve 18 years in prison for killing Bassett and suspended an additional 12 years on the conditions that Jorden be of uniform good behavior for 40 years and complete an indeterminate period of supervised probation following his release.
Judge Martin also revoked and ordered that Jorden serve his previously suspended sentence of seven years and three months for his probation violation. In 2015, Jorden was sentenced to serve five years and nine months in prison, with seven years and three months suspended on the condition that he be of uniform good behavior for five years and complete five years of supervised probation.
According to court records, Jorden fatally shot Bassett inside his girlfriend’s residence on Nicholson Street on Nov. 14, 2020. The girlfriend’s three children were inside the home at the time of the shooting.
Jorden was arrested less than a month later and confessed to shooting Bassett because he thought had a relationship with his pregnant girlfriend, according to police.
Jorden was on probation at the time of the fatal incident for another shooting, and he was prohibited from possessing of a firearm.
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