The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Reports, records reveal trouble at McCoy’s home

Attack victim says NFL player ‘set me up’ in her call to police Tuesday.

- By Mitchell Northam Mitchell.Northam@ajc.com

Just minutes after she was the victim of a home invasion, Delicia Cordon began to speculate that her ex-boyfriend, Buffalo Bills running back LeSean McCoy, was behind the attack.

And a year ago, McCoy, 30, told Milton police he was concerned his ex-girlfriend might “make false accusation­s” about him.

Police reports and public records released Thursday show turmoil at the home dating back to July 2017.

Cordon, 34, was assaulted in a home invasion at the NFL star’s home on Hickory Pass early Tuesday morning. She was treated at a hospital for injuries to her arm, head and face.

An Instagram user claim i ng to be Cordon’s friend posted a photo of her bloodied face with a message accusing McCoy of domestic violence, child abuse, animal abuse and taking performanc­e-enhancing drugs. The post was later deleted, and McCoy denied those claims adamantly on his social media accounts. An attorney for the running back said he was in Miami during thehome invasion.

Through an o pen-records request, The Atlanta JournalCon­stitution acquired the 911 call

Cordon made to a dispatcher around 3:18 that morning.

She tells the dispatcher that a black man wearing a mask and black clothing hit her in the face with a gun, took her jewelry and cash and made her go into the bathroom before he fled the scene. Cordon said he was “a little guy.”

Cordon said her son’s window was open and a tied sheet was hanging out the window “like someone went out from the second floor.”

“My face is demolished,” Cordon tells the dispatcher. “I’m bleeding everywhere.”

Names and addresses are redacted from the call, but Cordon started to think that McCoy may have been responsibl­e. “I have cameras all outside my house,” she says. “And my boyfriend, who I feel like did this, who set me up, is going to ... (unintellig­ible).”

The dispatch log says, “caller possibly thinks her ex-boyfriend possibly set her up.”

Tuesday was not the first time police had responded to McCoy’s home.

McCoy and Cordon have lived in the Milton home since October 2016. Three times since then, excluding Tuesday’s home invasion, police were called to the home for domestic disputes, reports show. Court records show that McCoy has twice attempted to evict Cordon from the home.

Police were first called July 3, 2017. When they arrived, McCoy told police they were “having issues,” that Cordon had accused him of cheating and they had broken up. The same day, he filed to have Cordon evicted. He also told police that Cordon had not returned the jewelry loaned to them despite several requests to do so.

Tanya Mitchell Graham, an attorney for Cordon, said Tuesday that the intruder in the home invasion demanded “specific items of jewelry” from Cordon that McCoy had gifted to her.

McCoy told police, according to the July 2017 report, that Cordon may try to take things from him or “make false accu- sations” about him. He told police he “was trying to be very careful” because of the “climate of domestic abuse” in the NFL.

Cordon returned to the home while p olice were there and told them about the breakup, but neither she or McCoy mentioned physical abuse, police said.

Separately, Cordon was arrested for an outstandin­g warrant in Atlanta involving a traffic violation.

Cordon called police to the home the second time on April 11 of this year because McCoy was moving furniture out of the home that she wanted to keep.

McCoy and Cordon separately told police that they “had everything worked out” and at no time did the argument become physical.

Police responded to the home a third time last month, on June 1. Cordon, who was in Virginia, called police when she observed people remove things from the home via a doorbell camera on her cellphone.

When police arrived there were people removing bags and furniture from the home, including Daphne McCoy, LeSean’s mother. McCoy’s mother told police that her son said Cordon could stay in the house until it was sold since she has two small children, “but (McCoy) wanted his things,” according to the report.

Police told McCoy’s mother — and McCoy by phone — that because he and Cordon shared the home, they would have to go to civil court to divide the items.

Graham, Cordon’s attorney, claims McCoy had the surveillan­ce cameras removed from the home June 1 and terminated. A hearing for Cordon’s eviction was set for July 10, the day of the home invasion, but has been continued to Aug. 14.

McCoy’s Atlanta-based attorney, Don Samuel, has not yet commented on the incident.

The nine-year NFL veteran, whose birthday was Thursday, has not commented on the home invasion or allegation­s against him aside from his brief social media post on Tuesday. The NFL and the Buffalo Bills have also not commented further.

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