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Man charged in fatal stabbing of jewelry store employee
Surveillance footage from a Hickory Hill jewelry store where an employee was killed during a robbery last week shows the suspected killer fatally stabbing the store’s clerk, according to an arrest affidavit.
Memphis police arrested 21-year-old Jesse Slade Tuesday after he was pulled over during a traffic stop and jewelry and cash from the robbery were found on him. Slade has been charged with first-degree murder and murder in perpetration of a robbery in the death of Noah Ashene. Police said Slade admitted to investigators that he killed Ashene and robbed the business, according to an affidavit. He will be in court Thursday on the charges.
Ashene, 42, was working last Thursday afternoon at Golden Jewelers at 6506 Winchester Road in Hickory Hill when he was fatally stabbed during a robbery.
Ashene was found by his wife, who came to the store to pick up their 1-year-old son who was at the store with his father when the robbery occurred.
According to a post on a GoFundMe page set up for Ashene’s family, the child was found unharmed wrapped in his father’s arm.