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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See my #19.
Thanks for clearing that up.
“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.
On his face book page.
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.
Yes, Algeria.
Intro
Lives in New Orleans, Louisiana
From Algiers, Algeria
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.
It’s possible he meant the Algiers in Louisiana, but what he has on his Facebook page is Algiers, Algeria.
Hometown in 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.
Mom asks what did he feel he needed? His father for starters.
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