State to ask death in store shooting
Prosecutors on Tuesday said they would seek the death penalty against a parolee charged with fatally shooting the manager of a Home Depot store during a robbery last year.
Jason Russell Richardson, 37, of Oceanside is accused of entering the store in the 2700 block of El Camino Real in Tustin on Feb. 9, 2007, demanding cash from a clerk and then shooting Thomas Egan, the father of two girls, before fleeing.
He was arrested about two weeks later during a meeting with his parole officer.
Richardson, being held without bail, is scheduled for a pre-trial hearing April 11.
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