Final Defendant in 2013 Gloucester Township Homicide Sentenced

The final defendant in a 2013 Gloucester Township homicide was sentenced to 20 years in state prison, Camden County Prosecutor Mary Eva Colalillo announced on Friday.

Joshua Texidor, 21, of Westampton, must serve 85 percent of his sentence before becoming eligible for parole.

He was sentenced to 20 years for first degree aggravated manslaughter, as well as a five-year term for third-degree aggravated assault. The terms will be served concurrently.

Texidor previously admitted he provided the handgun used in a planned robbery that turned into a killing.

Jevon Coleman-Robinson, 17, of Edgewater Park, and Isaac Mimes, 18, of Willingboro, were sentenced for their roles in the killing in June.

Coleman-Robinson was sentenced to 23 years in state prison for aggravated manslaughter. He must serve 85 percent of that sentence before becoming eligible for parole.

He also was sentenced to a concurrent term of 10 years incarceration for aggravated assault.

Mimes was sentenced to 12 years incarceration for armed robbery. He must serve 85 percent of that term before he is eligible for parole

In pronouncing the sentence, Superior Court Judge Gwendolyn Blue cited as aggravating factors the likelihood the defendant would reoffend and the need to deter him and others from committing similar offenses.

“When you decide to have a loaded gun in your possession you’ve already decided the criminal act that you’re going to commit,” Blue said. “Whenever you decide to take a loaded gun to use … your conduct certainly does contemplate the threat of serious harm.”

Texidor, Coleman-Robinson and Mimes visited Lamar Ortiz, 20, at Autumn Ridge Apartments in Gloucester Township, on July 15, 2013.

They intended to obtain marijuana from Ortiz, but had no intention of paying for it. The three of them went with a fourth man who knew Ortiz to his apartment.

When they arrived, Ortiz came to the vehicle’s passenger window and talked with the group. They asked him to show them the marijuana they wanted to buy and he refused.

When they insisted he walked away from the car. Coleman Robinson then drew his gun and pointed it at Ortiz.

Kelly Jackson, a family member, spoke on the victim’s family’s behalf. She said the robbery was about more than trying to steal marijuana.

“When you bring a gun it’s about power as well and trying to exert control over someone,” the Atco resident said. 

She also spoke about the family member she lost.

“Lamar was on this earth for 20 years,” she said. “He served in Afganistan as a soldier. He was by no means a perfect man but he was a loving man.”