"If yergy don't dergy tergy, tell mergy to get them two nergies little dergy and werwergy, you know what I'm sergying?" he said at one point. "That nergy jergy gotta get wergy tergy."
A federal witness was fatally shot less than a week later.
Translated in federal court, Jones had said: "If you don't do it, tell Moo to get them two [expletive] Little Dinkles and Woo Woo, you know what I'm saying? That [expletive] John gotta get whacked tonight."
That's a step above what Luse told the informant: "I o-gay own-day airs-stay, ell-tay ig-Pay, 'at-flay ine-lay [tell Pig, 'flat-line'] you heard me. By the time I'm gettin' to walkin' up the steps, I hear bom, bom, bom" [a reference to gunfire]."
Last week, federal prosecutors announced indictments against Kevin "Luse" Dorsey and Rodney "Pig" Lockett, charging them in connection with the Dec. 28 killing of Coby, 28, and the shooting of a woman who also was inside the house on Chauncey Avenue. Coby was bound at the feet and hands with plastic flex cuffs before being killed.