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.
Here is yet another case of that no-paragraph format. What is up with that? It’s an online epidemic!
Here is yet another case of that no-paragraph format. What is up with that? It’s an online epidemic!
he turned it around ,alright.
She forgot to add that he needed just one more score to pay off his pusher and get him out of his life.
When someone writes, someone else posts, and another person comments on such a post containing an article with such stereotypical exculpatory lies...
See, you are part of the problem.
Definition of chaos is Father’s Day in Harlem.
The visible grief his family bears and shows is part of the mechanism by which the criminal element is informed of the consequences of their actions. Increasing that grief amplifies the message. Raise a thug who dies in a failed hold-up attempt and the public will laugh at you. It’s a tough world.
Pointing out a lie is never “part of the problem.” Pointing out the lie and confronting those who would silence those who do is a vital part of the solution.
“I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years” -Lyndon B. Johnson.
“It’s like shooting a dog down”
I’ve shot dogs that were in the act of killing my chickens.
He’ll still be able to cast a vote for Obama later this year...
Chalk one up for the good guys. Thanks goodness an innocent person wasn’t murdered.
Dead dude was turning his life around.... His grandma sez so in this article (you can’t make this shiite up!)
I was flipping channels one night and I saw a show about the death penalty. As the perp was being led to the death chamber, the camera crew watched his mother back at home. She was in wrenching grief. Then she told the crew.
“I know he didn’t do it (the murder for which he was being executed). I just know it!”
“How are you sure?”, someone asked her. “They have the confession. They have his fingerprints on the gun...”
“I just know he didn’t do it,” the mother wailed, “BECAUSE I KNOW I DIDN’T RAISE NO KILLER.”
The grandmother here isn’t grieving her grandson. If she was, she would have done whatever she could to prevent his life of crime. No, she’s grieving her failure as a parent and “what will the neighbors think” about her now that everyone knows she was raising a thug.
It’s all about her. Otherwise, she wouldn’t be doing tv interviews.
“My grandson is gone. He’s never coming back”
Can I have a hallujah and an amen.
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-——My grandson is gone-—
I failed to see it in the article but did it mention where his grandfather happens to be?
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