Posted on 01/09/2012 6:39:23 AM PST by marktwain
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) - The family of a robbery suspect, shot and killed in the act, is speaking out.
Police say Raymond Davis, 22, of Norfolk, and two other men tried to rob Rogers Sport's Pub in Chesapeake Friday Night.
Witnesses told WAVY.com one of the patrons in the bar shot and killed Davis during the attempted robbery. It's the same story detectives told his grandmother Sheila Davis.
"The man went outside and came back in with his gun and shot him down," said Davis. "It's like shooting a dog down. He is a human being."
Davis says her grandson got mixed up with the wrong crowd. While she doesn't condone his behavior, she wants the public to respect her family in this time of grief.
"I'm not trying to sweet-coat nothing," said Davis. "He went in there to rob the place, but eventually he got killed is the result of it."
Witnesses say Davis and two other men entered the bar armed, wearing masks, and demanding money.
Shelia Davis is asking police to investigate the circumstances of the shooting and what happened after her grandson fell to the floor.
"They beat him with pool sticks," said Davis. "Why would you beat a person with pool sticks when he's already laying on the floor dead?"
Davis says her grandson was in the process of turning his life around. She says he had a steady job at a nearby McDonald's, and was the father to a 2-year-old with another baby on the way.
"They sit there and talk about it like it's a joke or something," said Davis. "It's not a joke. My grandson is gone. He's never coming back."
Police won't say if the person who shot Davis could possibly face charges.
They are still looking for the two other suspects who fled, possibly in a light blue Ford Taurus.
Stay with WAVY.com for the latest on this developing story.
Yes, her son was a criminal and the shooting was justified.
Mothers, do not raise your sons to be criminals. It will not end well.
What LBJ and the Democrats have done, intentionaly or not, to the black family, has created horrific consequences.
Yep, he was turning his life around....
Got to make Damned sure he is really really dead and the coroner probably can't come right away!
It appears the person interviewed is his grandmother, not the mother.
Yes, he is a human being, but he also chose to go into a bar and attempt to rob other human beings.
He got what he deserved and there’s one less thug criminal in the world to terrorize other, non criminal human beings.
Yup, that's pretty much the beginning and end of it, isn't it grandma?
While I sympathize with you in your personal loss, I am NOT sorry that yet another violent criminal has been permanently removed from circulation. If you have other grandchildren, PLEASE try to convince them that his way is not the right way.
His father was unknown, his mother dead of crack and LBJ, upon the passage of his vaunted "Great Society" legislation, said, "We'll have these niggers voting demonRAT for the next 100 years".
That is all the demonRATs care about, they don't give fat rat's ass about the human misery that they have caused with their BS cradle to grave welfare system.
I feel bad for the grand mother who was doing her best having to raise her daughter's bastards.
The father of a two year old and another baby on the way...
Different mothers, no doubt.
Turning his life around. Right.
Well, he has now given up a life of crime...permanently.
-——”Why would you beat a person with pool sticks when he’s already laying on the floor dead?” -——
Or in other words, when the horse beating raises pink goo, it’s time to cease whomping on the dead horse.
I have asked the question my self but the Sarah bots persist flailing away with the pool cues
“”They sit there and talk about it like it’s a joke or something,” said Davis”
He WAS a stereotypical joke that grandma was at least partially responsible for raising. Lie down with dogs and you can get shot like a rabid dog. ‘Just sayin’.
Pretty much ...
Let that be a lesson to his surviving homeeez ....
Only if that dog is committing a robbery.
I feel I must defend dogs here. Had this dead perp been minimally as good as a dog this whole tragic incident would never have happened.
The old “He was turning his life around.” trick. I’ve read it and heard it so many times it hardly registers anymore.
Maybe because pool sticks were the only thing that was handy?
I bet the robber never tries that again.
If you’ve noticed, it’s almost never the mother. It’s always the grandmother, and no mother or father ever even shows up in one of these stories.
That’s just for starters.
The response is somewhat stereotypical because the facts of these incidents have become stereotypical.
And too many black leaders aligned themselves with the people that created the problem.
I will accept the “real denial” portion of the mother’s response...
Everything else is a product of an entitlement mentality demographic that breeds this type of behavior, nurtures it, condones and publicizes it in song and editorial from the liberal side of the activity...
He also made this choice on his own...He did not ask his momma for permission to rob that facility...
All that hogwash about getting beaten after he was shot with pool cues is just that hogwash...Or we’d see those patrons up against the wall assuming the position...
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