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= Nigel Parodi =

Early life
Nigel Parodi (July 17 1972 - May 2, 2000) was the only son of Dr Peter and Nola Parodi and made international news after ambushing three police officers in Chermside West following an earlier threat to wound a neighbor with a gun. Brought up with sister Susie in a stable home he could be a bit of a rebel acting up in class from a young age. Former classmates who attended Brisbane Grammar Boys School where he spent three years in high school remembered Nigel’s behavior as a class clown who would do anything to get attention. It was at the same school Nigel was allegedly abused by guidance counsellor the late Kevin Lynch, with a former classmate remembering “We ran into each other five years after school and during a heated conversation about Lynch, Nigel told me Lynch had sexually abused him”. Kevin was later arrested by police over abusing a student at another school but suicided while on bail. Dr Parodi said the classmate's quotes about the abuse corresponded with the date of Nigel’s second year at the school, the start of his problem at the school and when he “went off the rails”. As a consequence Nigel’s parents sent him to work at a property west of Nambour, near Queensland’s Sunshine Coast at age 16 for six months where he “seemed to thrive” learning bush skills and how to ride. However, heading to work at a cattle station south-west of Katherine he clashed with other workers for his behavior and was let go after seven months and returned to Queensland in 1984.

Jesse James Ford
Nigel changed his name to Jesse James Ford in 1994 although his knowledge of the American outlaw has been disputed with former employer Tony Spinelli saying Nigel told him he had changed it as he did not like the name Nigel but did not insist on Jesse. “We called him Nigel anyway”. Throughout his life he had a dislike of police and a record including wilful exposure, theft and traffic offences and changed jobs multiple times but to some employers including Bulimba’s German Wrecking Owner Tony Spinelli he was a disciplined, hard worker in 1998 with 12 years experience in the spare parts industry without formal mechanical qualifications. “I always found him to be polite, very straightforward, not the sort of person who was a slacker,” he said. Leaving the business to start his own car import business in 1998 Nigel was living with his father in his childhood home in Hanbury St, Chermside West where he befriended neighbor Robbie Allen.

Hanbury Street Shooting
The men were close but Nigel became angry on April 25 when he lost a $20 bet to neighbour Paul Moran over the outcome of the Rugby League Anzac Test Match Game 1 between Australia and New Zealand after suggesting it to Paul. In the following days Nigel told Robbie he was angry with Paul. On April 30 Paul attempted to talk to Nigel before going out to a pub with a housemate and then returned home briefly before going into Brisbane for more drinking. After dropping off Moran in Brisbane on April 30, Robbie met Nigel who invited him home and showed him a .22 calibre rifle with a silencer and scope and fired it outside with and without the silencer before announcing he would kick in Paul’s door the following evening and shoot him. When Paul returned home at 1.30am. Robbie and a house guest were waiting to tell him Nigel had threatened to shoot him in the kneecaps and put him in a wheelchair the following night. Moran’s dog had also had its tail spray painted pink, which was attributed to Nigel.

Faced with the news Nigel intended to shoot him a concerned Paul phoned the police and told them of his fear of Nigel's mental state and guns. Nigel had previously been banned from owning a gun but had bought a .22 rifle when in Katherine. Police officers Constable Daryl Green, Constable Sharnelle Cole and Sergeant Chris Mulhall interviewed the men before returning to one of two police cars when Nigel ambushed them and fired 12 shots through the open passenger doors wounding all three officers seriously and fled to nearby bushland where he was found 20 days later dead of a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head. The officers survived and returned to duty.