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A woman got into an argument with a man who cut in line at a South Dallas convenience store last week, then she and her boyfriend punched him as he left, police say, causing injuries that ultimately led to his death.
Devetta Renee Jackson, 41, and Courtney Deon Martin, 35, each face one count of murder in the fatal beating of 60-year-old Willie Jorden.
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Police wrote in an arrest-warrant affidavit that a woman became upset with Jorden the afternoon of Jan. 18 when he ignored a line and walked right up to the counter at Big Daddy’s Convenience Store, at Colonial Avenue and Pine Street.
Surveillance footage showed the woman having a “heated conversation” with Jorden, then leaving without buying anything, police said. She walked to a Mitsubishi SUV in the parking lot, and a man got out of the driver’s seat and waited outside the store while the woman went back inside, the affidavit says.
The man confronted Jorden as he left the store, according to the affidavit, then the woman walked back out of the store and started punching Jorden in the face. The man also started hitting Jorden’s face, police said.
Jorden fell face-first onto the ground and stopped moving, police said. He was bleeding from his head when authorities arrived and was taken to Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, where he died from his injuries Friday, according to the Dallas County medical examiner’s office.
The man and woman drove off in the SUV, which police said had license plates registered to Jackson. Police wrote in the affidavit that surveillance footage showed the woman pulling down her mask while arguing with Jorden, revealing gold teeth like the ones in Jackson’s driver’s license picture.
Police said that they determined Jackson and Martin were in a relationship through research on social media and that Martin resembled the man seen in the video from the store.
Jackson and Martin were booked into the Dallas County jail Wednesday, with bail set at $250,000 each. Neither one of them had an attorney listed in court records.