The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Police: Assault at Milton home targeted McCoy's ex-girlfriend
A woman who was once in a romantic relationship with Buffalo Bills running back LeSean McCoy was taken to a hospital Tuesday morning after she was assaulted during an invasion at McCoy’s north Fulton County home.
Milton police are investigating the incident, which happened on Hickory Pass near the Cherokee County line around 3:18 a.m. Tuesday. Capt. Charles Barstow said a lone intruder entered the “specifically targeted” home.
McCoy’s involvement in the incident remains unclear. He has twice sought to have the woman, his ex-girlfriend Delicia Cordon, 34, evicted from the home, according to court records. An Atlanta-based attorney for McCoy, Jacoby Hudson, said that the NFL running back was in Miami on Tuesday and told Channel 2 Action News that McCoy “had nothing to do” with the incident.
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said the league is “reviewing the matter.”
In a brief message on his Instagram page, McCoy, 29, said, “For the record, the totally baseless and offensive claims made against me today on social media are completely false. Furthermore, I have not had any direct contact with any of the people involved in months.”
The claims that McCoy speaks of came from an unknown user on Instagram, whose post went viral Tuesday morning. Under the name “miamor_i_adore” the user posted photos of a woman she said was Cordon. One image showed Cordon in jeans and a tank top, while the other was a purported close-up of her face, which was battered, bloodied and bruised. The message accompanying the photos accused McCoy of domestic violence, child abuse, animal abuse and taking performance enhancing drugs. The post was later deleted, and the user briefly made her account private.
Specifically, the user said McCoy “beat” his son for
“peeing in the bed,” beat his dog into “kidney failure,” and claimed he used “illegal steroids” and “needles.” The user also called him “the devil” and an “animal” in the post.
McCoy has never failed a test for performance enhancing drugs while in the NFL, according to Mike Garafolo of NFL Network.
Another attorney for McCoy, Michael LaScala, told the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, “It looks awful but (McCoy) had nothing to do with it.”
Around 6 p.m. Tuesday, the user created a new Instagram post, saying, “And for the record Delicia’s lawyer forced me to remove that post. I stand by what I said.
I’ve personally addressed @LeSeanMcCoy on everything that was stated many many times over the year. Lie to these people if you want Shady, but you know I know everything.”
Another woman claiming to be Cordon’s friend, Cicely Billups, also posted the images on her Facebook page and claimed that men were sent “in her house to pistol whip and rob her.”
While Milton police released little information, Cordon’s Atlanta-based lawyer, Tanya Mitchel Graham, sent a statement to the AJC saying that her client was assaulted while sleeping in the home she and McCoy shared in Milton around 3 a.m. Tuesday.