Davis walked over to the basketball court in the middle of this old neighborhood. About two months before he had sold two rocks of crack cocaine to Jerry. He had seen Jerry twice since then. The first time, a few days after he sold him the drugs, he didn’t even ask Jerry about the money. Nor did he expect to be paid so fast. The second time, a week earlier, he had brought up the subject. At 16 years of age, Davis was not very mature. On this Friday afternoon he was carrying a gun that one of his drug providers had given him but never taught him how to shoot. He saw Jerry over there and yelled to him, “Where’s the money you owe me?”
“Dude, I’m in the middle of the game” screamed Jerry, obviously annoyed.
Within ten seconds, in front of 12 to 15 witnesses, Davis pulled out his revolver and fired at least 5 or 6 shots before bolting into the neighborhood. Within minutes the police arrived at the basketball court and within 2 hours, based on information they got from some of the witnesses about his whereabouts, they found and arrested Davis. The police got numerous witness statements and put together a slam dunk case which eventually led to his murder conviction as an adult: his sentence, life imprisonment.
The criminal prosecution in this case was probably easier than the crime scene cleanup at the basketball court. The City called in a homicide scene cleaner company to clean up the blood and guts left on the court. At the time there were so many crimes being committed in that neighborhood. It was helpful that the homicide scene cleaning company which also conducted suicide scene clean ups, accident scene clean ups, meth lab clean ups, odor removal clean ups and other death scene clean ups in addition to blood scene clean ups, got rid of the physical reminder of the horrid crime. That neighborhood needed a place for its kids to play. Despite the toll the crack cocaine epidemic had taken on that area, the good work of the crime scene cleaners mitigated the negative effects of the incident.
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