RICHMOND, MADISON CO. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) — It’s been two and a half years since Jordan Wesley Morgan was shot and killed during a deadly home invasion in her family’s home in Madison County. The man accused of the deadly home invasion Shannon Gilday has his trial date set, but former lawmaker Wesley Morgan says it has taken too…
RICHMOND, MADISON CO. (ABC 36 NEWS NOW) — It’s been two and a half years since Jordan Wesley Morgan was shot and killed during a deadly home invasion in her family’s home in Madison County.
The man accused of the deadly home invasion Shannon Gilday has his trial date set, but former lawmaker Wesley Morgan says it has taken too long.
August 28th of this year would’ve marked Jordan Wesley Morgan’s 35th birthday, what should have been a happy celebration, is a continuous reminder of a tremendous loss.
“It’s a wound that can’t be healed no matter what,” painfully recalls Jordan’s father, Wesley Morgan.
On February 22, 2022, officials say Shannon Gilday broke into the home of Jordan Morgan’s father and shot and killed Jordan injuring others as well.
“She was the first one, when he broke in the window, broke in the patio door off the back porch, he came to her bedroom the first upstairs that he came to, and he shot her 11 plus times while she laid in bed asleep,” recalls Morgan of the tragic incident.
But as the years go by, Wesley Morgan says he doesn’t understand why the case is going at a snail’s pace.
“He confessed, there’s been no issues of confession being under arrest or anything like that. I mean, it’s a cut and dry case, we’re two and a half years into it,” adds Morgan.
Morgan says that he doesn’t understand how Gilday continues a semi-normal life in jail, as the Morgan family waits for the trial to begin.
“Is this the kind of society that we have? Do we have a society, that a person can break in and kill an innocent girl laying in the bed, and he just lives,” he said.
Adding that he continues to hold himself guilty of not protecting his daughter.
“I’m enraged because it’s just, it’s not right. She’s laying right here, and I will never forget the day that I watched them put her in here. Only thing that’s going to cure me is my own death. I have to die to get the relief from what they’ve done to her,” adds an emotional Morgan.
Also saying, that in order for this type of violence to stop, there has to be some accountability especially for Shannon Gilday.
“The penalty has to become great enough that it will stop,” said Morgan.
“The trial for Gilday is set to begin next May 2025.