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Suspect Identified and Charged in Armed Robbery at Palm Coast’s Kay Jewelers

January 18, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Tyrone Lamar Walker
Tyrone Lamar Walker. (Chatham County)

“You look it up, Tyrone Lamar Walker, 25, told detectives when they asked him why he chose Kay Jewlers in Palm Coast as a target for his robbery in August. “Look it up,” he said, as if it were self-evident: “Kay Jewelers.”


The robbery took place the evening of Aug. 11. Two black men walked into Kay Jewelers. Two employees were working, a 28-year-old woman and a 23-year-old woman. The assailants got away with $22,000 worth of jewelry.

In less than two weeks, Walker was identified, located in Georgia and confessed, but it was only Wednesday that a Flagler County judge signed his arrest warrant.

“This is another outstanding job by our detectives,”Sheriff Rick Staly said. “Sometimes these cases take a while to solve but we continue to work them using every thread of evidence we have to build the case. We will not rest until his accomplice is also identified and arrested.”

Walker, 25, faces felony charges of grand theft, armed robbery and criminal mischief. Flagler is seeking his extradition from Chatham County, Ga., where he is being held on unrelated charges.

There were no customers in the Kay Jewelers store at Town Center (near Target) at the time of the robbery. The whole robbery was recorded by surveillance cameras. It shows one of the assailants struggling with one of the employees for the keys to a display case. When that failed, one of the robbers took out a hammer and smashed the center-display case, grabbed several gold necklaces before both assailants left with six bracelets. Neither wore gloves or masks. They dropped the hammer in the store.

One of the victims informed a detective that one of the assailants had a very large tattoo of a spider on his neck and acronyms like GSA or GSB on his forearm, and that he spoke with a “southern and raspy” accent. The employee also feared at one point that he was reaching for a gun. Her co-worker provided much the same observations, adding that one of the suspect had a chipped front tooth–all details that prove helpful to investigators.


Surveillance Footrage of the Robbery

The assailants had injured themselves breaking display-case glass and grabbing jewelry, leaving behind blood stains that produced DNA samples.

Less than a week later detectives were informed that the Jewelers’ Security Alliance had possibly identified one of the suspects as Tyrone “Bossie” Walker of Savannah, Ga. The alliance’s investigators had located his Facebook page and indicated a large spider tattoo on the side of his neck. It’s not an uncommon tattoo, but when the sheriff’s detective Nicole Quintieri showed a picture of Walker to one of the store employees, she declared herself extremely confident that it was one of the alleged assailants. But the other employee picked out an uninvolved party when presented with a photo line-up.

The other detective on the case located Walker through his probation officer. Walker was in jail in Chatham County on an unrelated offense. After going through the required judicial procedures, detectives George Hristakopoulos and Joe Costello met with Walker at the jail and presented him with a search warrant for his DNA. Walker had a chipped front tooth, “a southern drawl and a gravelly voice,” Hristakopoulos wrote in his report, “similar to what was described by the victims,” along with a “G.P.S.” tattoo on his forearm.

As all that was going on, Walker told the detectives he wanted to talk to them. So they did. For an hour and 44 minutes though, he allegedly lied about his involvement in the robbery, then confessed to the crime because he said he was “fucked up out here in life,” and had never done anything like that before. But he wouldn’t give up his accomplice. “You got to find out who my mans [sic.] is on your own though, I ain’t gone lie to you about that,” Walker is quoted as saying in his arrest report.

The detective asked him why he targeted Palm Coast. Walker replied: “It don’t be studied, it just be like, it’s just like if you do some shit, if you a criminal in the street and you do this shit, you know what I’m sayin’… I mean you look it up. Look it up Kay Jewelers.” Walker then appeared to congratulate the detectives for doing their job and solving the case. He said he’d gotten rid of the jewelry though, and again refused to give up his accomplice.

The DNA evidence tied Walker to the blood found at the jewelry store beyond any reasonable doubt.

Detectives continue to work with the Savannah Police Department to identify the second suspect. The investigation is ongoing and additional charges are possible.

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Comments

  1. TheTruth says

    January 18, 2019 at 11:20 am

    They always get caught, just a matter of time.

    Reply
  2. Steve says

    January 18, 2019 at 12:30 pm

    Bye bye Mr. Armed robber glad no one was hurt.

    Reply
  3. Dave says

    January 18, 2019 at 12:48 pm

    Our president Trump made it very clear that snitching is bad. Even though this guy is a criminal and it’s great they caught him, you can see he is being very patriotic and probably a supporter of Trump by not snitching like our President has made clear is a very bad thing.

    Reply
  4. Again says

    January 18, 2019 at 1:10 pm

    What a complete idiot …. have fun for the next 15-20 years dumbass

    Reply
  5. Concerned Citizen says

    January 18, 2019 at 2:28 pm

    Start sentencing harder on multi offenders.

    Also they should start pursuing Federal charges for crossing state lines. If the courts would start handing out stiffer sentences then it might cut down on some of this crap. Especially when it’s the same people over and over.

    Plea bargins and probation are for first time non-violent offenders. Anything past that and you should sentence accordingly.

    Reply
  6. The original woody says

    January 18, 2019 at 3:27 pm

    Why Palm Coast to do the robbery?Does every news article have to turn into a political form?Just makes me like Trump more.

    Reply
  7. Fredrick says

    January 18, 2019 at 3:30 pm

    I heard he deleted all his mails and smashed his phones too so it is hard to tell if he was a Trump or Hillary supporter.

    Reply
  8. ASF says

    January 18, 2019 at 4:44 pm

    Gang-related–for sure. Law enforcement needs to dig a little deeper.

    Reply
  9. palmcoaster says

    January 19, 2019 at 5:11 pm

    Good sheriff investigators work. Thank you. But what took the judge so long to give sheriff an arrest warrant? Maybe because our courts are overloaded with drugs cases? Like this one when she keeps being bailed out by her wealthy boyfriend?: https://www.palmcoastobserver.com/article/fugitive-arrested-after-deputies-find-her-hiding-in-an-armoire
    This in Palm Coast is a case of hundreds if not over thousands were wealthy older men keep on bailing out and housing these felon addict out among our families, so they just to go back to the same old over and over again…

    Reply
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