Capital murder trial to begin in beating/burning death
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- Date: 31 Oct 2005 10:49:16 -0800
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Capital murder trial to begin
Two are charged with abducting, beating, burning man in 2001
BY TOM CAMPBELL
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER Oct 30, 2005
"Man abducted, then set on fire."
At the time, that headline and a four-sentence newspaper article served
as a grim record of an attack that proved fatal to 22-year-old Dwayne
A. Tabon. The brief account ran on Page B10 of The Times-Dispatch on
Sept. 15, 2001. Tabon died in a hospital 10 days later.
Tomorrow, two men accused of abducting, beating and burning Tabon,
allegedly to steal drugs from him, will go on trial for their lives in
U.S. District Court here. The charges include capital murder, and
federal prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
Six men and six women, the jury selected last week, will judge the case
against defendants Peter Robert Jordan, 54, and Arthur Lorenzo Gordon,
28.
Both are charged with murder while engaged in drug trafficking,
conspiracy to use or carry a firearm and possession of a firearm in
furtherance of drug trafficking. Jordan is charged also with conspiracy
to distribute crack cocaine and heroin.
Tabon was found with severe burns and a fractured skull in the 5000
block of Walmsley Boulevard. The burning took place Sept. 14, 2001,
about 1 a.m.
Gordon and Jordan were indicted by a federal grand jury on July 6,
2004. The charges resulted from an investigation by the Richmond Police
Department and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Judge Henry E. Hudson is presiding over the trial.
Two co-defendants, Hamadi Miller and Jordan's sister, Jacqueline
Jordan, pleaded guilty to related charges before the indictment against
Gordon and Peter Jordan. According to court documents, Miller and
Jacqueline Jordan told authorities they were part of a plan by Gordon
and Peter Jordan to rob and kill Tabon.
Tabon was allegedly lured to an apartment on Clarkson Road. Once there,
he was attacked, robbed, bound with duct tape and loaded into the trunk
of Jacqueline Jordan's car.
The car was driven to the location on Walmsley Boulevard, the two
co-defendants told authorities. There, Gordon and Peter Jordan
allegedly beat Tabon, fractured his skull, set him on fire and left him
to die. Jacqueline Jordan and Miller are named among other witnesses
for the trial of Gordon and Jordan.
Miller was sentenced in 2003 to 12 years and seven months in federal
prison on drug and firearm charges. Jacqueline Jordan was sentenced in
April 2004 to eight years and one month for obstruction of justice and
possession of a firearm by a drug user.
Peter Jordan, who was using the alias Richard Mercer, was arrested in
New York in June 2004 by the U.S. Marshals Service.
Gordon, who is sometimes known as Ron Green and sometimes by the
nickname "New York," was already in federal custody on unrelated
charges. According to court documents, he pleaded guilty on Dec. 2,
2002, in federal court here to distribution of crack cocaine.
The indictment against Jordan and Gordon contains "special findings"
necessary to make the homicide charge capital murder under federal law.
The special findings are that the two defendants were 18 or older at
the time of the offense; intended to kill Tabon; inflicted serious
bodily injury that resulted in Tabon's death; intentionally engaged in
an act of violence that constituted reckless disregard for human life
and that act resulted in Tabon's death; committed the homicide to gain
something of value; committed the homicide after substantial
premeditation; and committed the homicide "in an especially heinous,
cruel or depraved manner in that it involved torture and serious
physical abuse."
While authorities have stated that Tabon was a drug dealer, his father
yesterday denied it.
"He worked. He was not a drug dealer," said Jerry Tabon of Richmond.
"He was robbed, and I don't need to say any more about it."
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