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Coroner IDs phone store robbery suspect killed by customer
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune ^ | 2/13/17 | Jonathan Bullington, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune

Posted on 02/13/2017 3:53:43 PM PST by BBell

The suspected robber shot and killed by an armed customer Friday night (Feb. 10) has been identified by the Orleans Parish Coroner's Office as Jordan Espadron.

Espadron, 28, was armed when he entered the T-Mobile store, 506 St. Andrew St., shortly before 7:30 p.m., New Orleans police said. Once inside, police said he ordered employees and a customer to the back room and demanded money from the store safe.

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Jordan Espadron life fell off track, his grandmother said. A search of online court records in Jefferson Parish shows separate 2008 convictions for cocaine possession and for attempting to possess a firearm as a felon. In 2011, he pleaded guilty in Orleans Parish to possessing heroin and cocaine, for which he was sentenced to five years in prison. The following year, records show, he received a concurrent six-year sentence after pleading guilty to attempting to possess a firearm as a felon.

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Espadron's mother, Stacy Ward, said her son had tried to find work upon his release from prison. He worked construction last, she said, until cold weather at the end of last year forced an early end to the job. His attempts to find new employment seemed to derail when his criminal record came to light.

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Ward said she made no excuses for what her son's behavior.

"I don't know why he did what he did," she said. "If he asked for something, we gave it to him. What did he feel like he needed?"

Still, she questioned why the armed customer who shot her son from behind did not instead step outside to call police, given that an NOPD division is headquartered steps from the cellphone store.

"It's not right what my child did, but send him to jail -- don't kill him," Ward said.

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TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; coroner; customer; drt; neworleans; nola; phonestorerobbery; suspect
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To: marktwain

See my #19.


21 posted on 02/13/2017 5:20:19 PM PST by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Charles Martel

Thanks for clearing that up.


22 posted on 02/13/2017 5:23:04 PM PST by marktwain (We wanted to tell our side of the story. We hope by us telling our story...)
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To: BBell

“Still, she questioned why the armed customer who shot her son from behind did not instead step outside to call police”

Because lives were on the line, Ma’am. I’m sorry that you lost your son, you seem to me to be a good person. I’m sorry that your son chose to be a bad person.


23 posted on 02/13/2017 5:37:43 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: marktwain

On his face book page.


24 posted on 02/13/2017 5:43:33 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Charles Martel

Algiers is divided by Opelousas Ave, south of it is mostly black and ghetto, to the north white and gentrified.

During Katrina snipers fired warning shots at any blacks attempting to cross.


25 posted on 02/13/2017 5:47:56 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: Charles Martel

Yes, Algeria.


26 posted on 02/13/2017 5:54:45 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: marktwain

Intro
Lives in New Orleans, Louisiana
From Algiers, Algeria


27 posted on 02/13/2017 6:30:30 PM PST by barker
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To: FXRP; Dalberg-Acton; marktwain

I’ll bet the career criminal was too stupid to know that there was more than one Algiers; it’s just a short ferry ride from the foot of Canal Street.


28 posted on 02/13/2017 6:32:30 PM PST by PAR35
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To: PAR35

It’s possible he meant the Algiers in Louisiana, but what he has on his Facebook page is Algiers, Algeria.


29 posted on 02/13/2017 6:38:49 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Robert DeLong

Hometown in Algeria?


30 posted on 02/13/2017 6:46:25 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Dalberg-Acton
It’s possible he meant the Algiers in Louisiana, but what he has on his Facebook page is Algiers, Algeria.

In Louisiana, Algiers is the colloquial name for the fifth municipal district of the city of New Orleans, akin to one of the Paris arrondissements. It's not an "official" municipal name for a town or city in Louisiana, so I agree - the deceased was working with Facebook's limitations. He probably never had a clue as to what or where Algeria was.

31 posted on 02/13/2017 7:02:17 PM PST by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%
Actually it's Algiers, New Orleans, a community with New Orleans. 8>)
32 posted on 02/14/2017 4:14:44 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: BBell

Mom asks what did he feel he needed? His father for starters.


33 posted on 02/14/2017 9:21:28 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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