06-18-2024, 04:50 AM
Driver sentenced to nearly 33 years in road-rage shooting
https://wapo.st/3KKXF95
A D.C. Superior Court judge on Monday sentenced a Maryland man to 32½ years after his conviction in a road rage incident during which prosecutors said he hopped out of his Maserati and fired into a vehicle with a woman and two children inside before turning on bystanders.
In January, Kenneth Miles Davis Jr., 45, of Lanham, Md., was found guilty of assault with intent to kill while armed, multiple charges of assault with a dangerous weapon and several counts of possession of a firearm during a crime of violence in the May 19, 2021, shooting in Northeast Washington.
Davis maintained his innocence and argued he was not the shooter. He told Judge Rainey Brandt on Monday that he plans to appeal the conviction.
At trial, prosecutors said Davis was driving a gray Maserati GranTurismo at Kenilworth and Eastern avenues NE about 5 p.m. in heavy rush-hour traffic when the woman, traveling with her 5- and 11-year-old children, tried to change lanes in front of him. Authorities say Davis stopped his vehicle, got out and fired his gun seven times into the car. A bullet hit the woman in her upper arm. Her 5-year-old suffered cuts from broken glass, and the 11-year-old was unhurt.
After shooting at the car, prosecutors said, Davis turned and fired six more shots at witnesses, none of whom were hurt. Davis was later arrested in Costa Rica and extradited to the United States.
[Posted because of the long sentence for a non-fatal shooting.]
https://wapo.st/3KKXF95
A D.C. Superior Court judge on Monday sentenced a Maryland man to 32½ years after his conviction in a road rage incident during which prosecutors said he hopped out of his Maserati and fired into a vehicle with a woman and two children inside before turning on bystanders.
In January, Kenneth Miles Davis Jr., 45, of Lanham, Md., was found guilty of assault with intent to kill while armed, multiple charges of assault with a dangerous weapon and several counts of possession of a firearm during a crime of violence in the May 19, 2021, shooting in Northeast Washington.
Davis maintained his innocence and argued he was not the shooter. He told Judge Rainey Brandt on Monday that he plans to appeal the conviction.
At trial, prosecutors said Davis was driving a gray Maserati GranTurismo at Kenilworth and Eastern avenues NE about 5 p.m. in heavy rush-hour traffic when the woman, traveling with her 5- and 11-year-old children, tried to change lanes in front of him. Authorities say Davis stopped his vehicle, got out and fired his gun seven times into the car. A bullet hit the woman in her upper arm. Her 5-year-old suffered cuts from broken glass, and the 11-year-old was unhurt.
After shooting at the car, prosecutors said, Davis turned and fired six more shots at witnesses, none of whom were hurt. Davis was later arrested in Costa Rica and extradited to the United States.
[Posted because of the long sentence for a non-fatal shooting.]