Everett Davis, third murder in Old Capital

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Shortly after Marlon Zelaya’s murder on Sunday morning, a man riding his bicycle was shot twice on Castle Street. Everett Lincoln Davis was reforming his life after doing time in prison, but in the end, gun violence caught up with the twenty-five year old. News Five’s Jose Sanchez reports on the third homicide in the murder capital.

Jose Sanchez, Reporting

Twenty-five year old Everett Lincoln Davis was gunned down on Castle Street after leaving his girlfriend’s residence on Freetown Road. While on his bicycle he was shot twice and fell into a drain; one bullet exited his left temple and other the back of his head.  One of his friends says he was like a brother.

Voice of: Friend of Murder Victim

“My lee bwai like a brother to me. Dah young bwai does cool and thing. Everything cool with the youth and thing. It’s all gravy to me because mi youth gone and we can’t bring that back, but I hope my lee bwai reach thug mansion and thing. Like how I am saying too right, only he know the killer and the killer know him. Anyway, rest in peace.”

Not only a brother, his cousin said that he was a father figure to kids in the vicinity of Victoria Street.

Felicia Michael, Cousin of Murder Victim

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“He didn’t have any kids. But I have a daughter and he tek she like his own. And around here all the neighborhood kids dah like fi he—he take them on. So everybody round ha miss he too because he dah like father of all children around here.”

Felicia Michael says Davis was in the process of making his life a better one.

Felicia Michael

“When he come out he mi change. He dah wah type ah person weh help everybody. He wanted better because he’s been through a lot. He knows about poor people and he want wah change. He see the violence weh the happen out yah so he wah to make a change. Things happen round here and he get into it to help others. And eventually that dah ih death.”

Jose Sanchez

“I know he just came out of jail recently—he’s on parole for robbery. Do you think it had anything he may have been involved with, past associates?”

Felicia Michael

“I no sure, probably. I can’t really say. Ya so, they don’t know what his happening outside because you get two different side of the story when they come home than weh di happen out there.”

Jose Sanchez

“He left home very early in the morning, like around four-thirty. Do you know why he left out so early?”

Felicia Michael

“He come home those hours. So people monitor that. They know how ih move. That’s why they say when u gwen one direction, try to go back wa different way.”

Jose Sanchez

“Did you know him to have any enemies or just someone who had it out for him?”

Voice of: Friend of Murder Victim

“Bwai well out ya, yo no even need fi gat enemy. You got man weh envy yo, jealous yo. Da so the game go once you di live a gangsta life or a street life. No care how long ih tek, you will get killed or be killed.”

Jose Sanchez

“So Everett lived the life?”

Voice of: Friend of Murder Victim

“Everett neva mi deh di live the life, he mi di try live wah better life. Mi lee bwai deh pan parole and they tek my lee bwai life anyway. So dah like this, yo chance my lee bwai life. So stay be unknown killa.”

Reporting for News Five, Jose Sanchez.