OAKLAND PARK, Fla. — A 14-year-old boy’s troubled father was serving time in prison in Florida when a 16-year-old boy fatally stabbed him on Monday in Broward County, records show.
When Jordan Dowdy was born, his father, Jeffery Dowdy, was already a felon convicted of possession of a controlled substance, and his mother, Tiffany Simpson, had been a domestic violence victim.
It’s a pattern that continued while Jordan was growing up, county and state records show.
Simpson, 36, told Local 10 News on Wednesday that Jordan had been in foster care, a state-supervised living arrangement, at a house in Oakland Park, since April…