Plea in Dunkin’ Donuts murder

Phoenixville-area teenager slain outside eatery in 2017

The man who authorities say arranged a drugrelated robbery that left a Phoenixville-area teenager dead outside the local Dunkin’ Donuts has pleaded guilty to charges in the case, a few days after the final suspect in the shooting was held for trial.

On Friday before Chester County Court Judge Alison Bell Royer, defendant John Leonard McCoy III quietly answered “yes” when the judge asked him if he wished to plead guilty to charges of third-degree murder, robbery, and conspiracy to commit robbery.

The plea came with no formal sentence attached, and McCoy was returned to Chester County Prison to await sentencing. His co-defendants, John “Gotti” Ortiz-Carr and Brian Keith “Redz” Corsey, are both awaiting trial before Royer.

McCoy, 23, of Pottstown, and Corsey, 25, of Philadelphia, have been in custody since their arrests in the spring, but Ortiz-Carr, 25, of Pottstown, was not picked up until late last year. Court records show that he was arrested in December, but there was no information available about the circumstances. He was held for court at a proceeding before District Judge JoAnn Teyral on Jan. 9.

Ortiz-Carr’s attorney, Mark Conte of the West Chester law firm of Kelly & Conte, could not be reached for comment on Friday.

All three defendants are charged in the murder of 15-yearold Jason Ortiz-Cameron, a Phoenixville Area High School student. He died of a single gunshot wound to the head.

On Dec. 27, 2017, McCoy set up a drug transaction with a man he knew in Phoenixville, whose