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Gabriel Davies Teen Killer Missing To Murder Suspect In Olympia

Gabriel Davies whose disappearance prompted a search in Olympia Washington has now been arrested for murder. According to police reports Gabriel Davies and an unnamed 16 year old juvenile have been arrested for the murder of a fifty one year old man who was shot dead in his home. According to early reports Gabriel Davies and the victim were known to each other. The alleged teen killers have been arrested on suspicion of second degree murder, burglary and firearm possession charges.

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The Olympia teenager who was the subject of a two-day search earlier this week when he disappeared on his way to football practice has been arrested for his suspected role in the shooting death of an Orting man. Gabriel Michael Davies and another 16-year-old were taken into custody Friday night by Pierce County Sheriff’s detectives. The 51-year-old victim was found dead with a gunshot wound in his Orting home Thursday morning by Pierce County Sheriff’s deputies, according to a statement from the department.

The News Tribune typically does not name juveniles charged with crimes. In this case, the name is being published due to recent prior coverage of Davies’ disappearance as well as the seriousness of the alleged offense. The Sheriff’s Department said deputies were checking on the victim at his residence in the 21900 block of 190th Street East in Orting because he failed to show up for work for four days.

Deputies determined he had a gunshot wound but no weapon was found. Detectives and forensic investigators processed the scene Thursday and Friday. The victim had been dead for at least 24 hours prior to the discovery of his body on Thursday morning, said Sheriff’s Department spokesperson Sgt. Darren Moss. An exact time of death will be determined after a full investigation. The victim and Davies knew each other, Moss said. By Friday night, detectives had collected enough evidence to arrest the two teenage suspects just after 8 p.m.

The pair were booked into Remann Hall Juvenile Detention Center on suspicion of second degree murder, burglary and firearm possession charges. Davies became the subject of intense community and media interest after his family reported him missing Wednesday. Authorities launched a search after his vehicle was found abandoned on Tilley Road that evening. Davies was found about 10 p.m. Thursday in the 13600 block Tilley Road Southwest, according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office. He was located north of where deputies said they found his vehicle under “suspicious circumstances.”

Detectives reportedly found items strewn about, a small amount of blood and a smashed cell phone at the scene of Davies’ vehicle. At the time of Davies’ reunion with his family, The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office said no other details would be forthcoming on Davies’ disappearance.

Caleb Sharpe School Shooter Gets 40 Years In Prison

Caleb Sharpe was fifteen years old when he entered Freeman High School in Rockford Washington killing one student and injuring three more. According to court documents Caleb Sharpe was confronted by Sam Strahan who was fifteen years old and was fatally shot. The school attack which took place in 2017 would take five years to proceed through the court system. Caleb Sharpe would plead guilty to murder, three counts of attempted murder and assault among other charges. Due to his age at the time of the attack Caleb Sharp would be sentenced to forty years in prison.

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Caleb Sharpe, who previously pleaded guilty to killing one of his former classmates and shooting three other students at Freeman High School in Rockford, Washington, in 2017, was sentenced to 40 years in prison Friday.

Sharpe, 20, who was 15 years old at the time of the shooting, spoke publicly for the first time in five years, apologizing for his actions before he was sentenced, according to the Spokesman-Review, a newspaper that operates out of Spokane, Washington.

“There’s only really one thing that I can say,” Sharpe said, per the newspaper. “And that is, I am sorry.”

In January, he pleaded guilty to premeditated murder, three counts of attempted murder, and second-degree assault for the attack that took place on Sept. 13, 2017, FOX 28 of Spokane reported.

“That day showed me the true cost of evil. Everything that this community had to pay, my own family had to pay,” Sharpe added, the newspaper reported. “From that point on and now, evil has no place in my heart.”

Friday morning’s court hearing was somber as state prosecutors showed footage from the attack, recorded by the school’s surveillance camera.

Sharpe and his parents, Ben and Ericka Sharpe, watched as the video showed their son setting down a duffle bag in a hallway before pulling out an AR-15 and shooting several high school students.

Ami Strahan, the mother of Sam Strahan, a 15-year-old who died in the shooting, also watched and was seen covering her face as the video showed her son being shot twice and falling to the ground, the Spokesman reported.

The now deceased 15-year-old confronted Sharpe during the shooting and attempted to stop him.

Strahan spoke during the court hearing, where she called Sharpe an “evil, hateful human being” and pleaded for Spokane County Superior Court Judge Michael Price to sentence him to the longest possible time behind bars, FOX 28 reported.

Sharpe’s public defender Brooke Foley called for a fixed 20-year sentence, citing his age and immaturity at the time of the shooting.

Foley argued Sharpe should be considered a youthful offender as Washington state law says juveniles are less “culpable” for their crimes, the Spokesman reported.

Foley also urged the judge to consider the remainder of Sharpe’s life and his potential rehabilitation into society, following his sentence.

“His prospects for change and rehabilitation are strong,” the public defender argued, per the Spokesman report. “Justice is following the law, despite demands for blood.”

In response, Deputy Prosecutor Sharon Hedlund argued a heftier 35-year sentence would be more appropriate given the severity of the crime.

“His obsessive and compulsive tendencies were and are an issue,” Hedlund said.

According to the Spokesman, Price said the 35-year recommendation did not go far enough.

Price spoke for over an hour and said Sharpe “slaughtered” his classmates. He also explained Washington state’s legal guidelines before sentencing Sharpe to 40 years behind bars.

In the explanation, the judge said Sharpe was sentenced as an adult but did not receive the standard 75 to 90-year sentence due to another Washington law that limited the maximum sentence that could be applied to juveniles.

According to the report, Sharpe can appeal the sentence within the next 30 days.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/washington-school-shooter-sentenced-40-years-prison-2017-rampage-freeman-high-school

Kenneth Dowling Charged In Multiple Sexual Assaults

Kenneth Dowling is a man from Spokane Washington who has just been charged with a series of sexual assaults and home invasions that took place fifteen years ago. According to police reports two women were sexually assaulted in 2003 and 2004 by an unidentified suspect. The cases went cold until a DNA match would point to Kenneth Dowling as a direct match.

Kenneth Dowling, allegedly, broke into two homes where he would sexually assault the female residents at gunpoint. A family relation of Kenneth Dowling would submit their DNA to a genealogy database and ultimately would lead Spokane Washington police to Kenneth Dowling. Kenneth Dowling has been charged with four counts of rape, three counts of assault and three counts of unlawful imprisonment with sexual motivation. If convicted Dowling faces life in prison

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Court documents show chilling new details in a cold case that Pullman detectives say they have finally solved.

47-year-old Kenneth Downing is accused of breaking into homes and raping women in the early 2000’s

Downing’s bail was set at an astounding $5 million and a Whitman County Judge agreed to keep it there. Prosecutors argue he’s still a threat to the public. The court documents are disturbing.

Prosecutors say Kenneth Downing has been at large for the last 18 years. Now, he’s locked up in a Whitman County jail cell. He was arrested Thursday at a construction site in North Spokane after Pullman police say his DNA matched evidence collected at multiple crime scenes.

“This is an extremely serious crime, your honor, where first instance a woman woke up in her bedroom to a man in the house with a gun,” the prosecutor said.

Prosecutors say Downing broke into a home om Water Street near downtown Pullman in 2003. A woman was home alone, sleeping in the basement and heard the floor creaking upstairs. Then, her bedroom door was opened. A man pointed a gun at her, asking if anyone else was home. The victim was sexually assaulted three times. At one point, she said the attacker made small talk and asked about her pets. She described him as wearing Carhartt style overalls and a ski mask. She told police he took the batteries out of her landline phone

“Told her when he was leaving that if she reported it to anybody he would be back in two months and that he knew people,” the prosecutor said.

Prosecutors say 18 years later, that victim still lives in fear, and she is not the only one Downing is accused of raping.

Months later in 2004, police say he broke into an apartment, which is now a hotel. Two women were inside. One of them grabbed a knife but dropped it when she realized Downing was holding a gun. According to court documents. Downing tied up one roommate and raped the other.

“So very serious, very dangerous, very violent crimes,” the prosecutor said.

For 18 years, police held on to DNA evidence they collected at the crime scenes, but they didn’t know whose it was until they entered in into a genealogy database. According to court documents, one of Downing’s relatives sent in a sample to find out more about their family tree. It was the break police needed.

Downing told the judge he’s a married man, with several children. He’s lived in Elk, Washington for the last ten years. Judge Gary Libey kept his bond at $5 million.

Downing is facing 13 felony charges. If convicted, he could spend the rest of his life in prison

https://www.krem.com/article/news/crime/suspect-cold-case-pullman-life-in-prison/293-9ca8be3d-5f32-4202-b628-7e1c4afb5a8a

Gerald Brevard Charged In Homeless Killings

Gerald Brevard has been arrested and charged with a string of attacks on the homeless in both New York and Washington. According to police reports Gerald Brevard allegedly murdered 54-year-old Morgan Holmes by shooting and stabbing. Gerald Brevard is also charged with a number of assaults on the homeless as well as being investigating a string of shootings that took place in Washington where the suspect used a .22 caliber gun and targeted the homeless. Five people have been shot in New York and Washington over the last two weeks. Gerald Brevard who is a convicted felon helped investigators capture him by posting a photo on social media showing that he was in Washington. As well as State charges Gerald Brevard may face Federal Charges as well.

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The suspected killer accused of targeting homeless men in Washington D.C., and New York City was identified Tuesday, hours after he was arrested amid a manhunt by multiple law enforcement agencies.

Gerald Brevard III, 30, a D.C. resident, was taken into custody in Washington around 2:30 a.m. after the Metropolitan Police Department received an anonymous tip that provided a possible identity of the suspect, Chief Robert Contee III said.

“Based on all the evidence we’ve pulled together in this case, the video evidence, the images that we’ve seen, I am very confident that this is the person,” he said Tuesday.

Gerald Brevard is charged with first-degree murder while armed for the shooting and stabbing death of 54-year-old Morgan Holmes, assault with intent to kill and assault with a dangerous weapon. More charges for his alleged crimes in New York are anticipated.

He could also face federal charges, officials said.

After receiving the tip, investigators said Brevard posted an image on social media that appeared to show him in Washington D.C., Contee said. Authorities unsuccessfully tried locating him and an image of him at an ATM was released Monday evening during a joint news conference with New York City officials in which they urges the homeless in both cities to seek shelter.

Surveillance video obtained by Fox DC showed Brevard being arrested at a gas station by agents with the Washington Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

“I knew that if he was in D.C. with that image, he would be found,” Mayor Muriel Bowser said.

Authorities noted that Brevard was arrested in the early morning hours, around the same time when the victims were shot

He has not offered a motive for the crimes, Contee said and investigators believe the shootings and killings were committed randomly. Between both cities, five homeless people were shot, including two who died

Investigators have not recovered the weapon associated with the crimes, Contee said. In a separate news briefing on Tuesday, NYPD Commissioner Keechant L. Sewell said the response to Monday’s plead for help from the public was “extraordinary.”

“The tips we received through Crime Stoppers and other outlets led us directly to contacts, movements, locations and a name,” she said.

The shootings began on March 3 when a homeless man was shot in Washington. On March 8, another homeless man was shot. Both are recovering, the chief said Tuesday.

Holmes was found dead on March 9 after firefighters extinguished a tent fire. He had multiple stab and gunshot wounds, the MPD said. Ballistics evidence linked all five shootings to one weapon, authorities said.

Brevard allegedly shot one homeless person and killed another in separate incidents in New York on Saturday.

“I send my condolences to the family and friends of the victims,” Contee said. “We hope that Brevard’s arrest provides a sense of closure for you, but also relief for our vulnerable homeless population.

The cases were forensically connected after MPD Capt. Kevin Kentish of the homicide unit was scrolling through social media over the weekend and saw an image of the suspect released by the NYPD in connection with the shootings in New York, MPD Chief Robert Contee III said.

Kentish, a native of Queens, New York, reviewed the image with his team, who were investigating the March 8 murder of Holmes. The cases were connected afterward, the chief said.

Brevard has previous arrests in Washington for allegedly assaulting a police officer in 2018 and assault with a dangerous weapon, Contee said. He has arrests in D.C. dating back to 2016, he said.

In Fairfax County, he was arrested in 2020 on abduction and burglary charges, FOX D.C. reported.

He was enrolled in mental health services and was treated in 2019 for a competency assessment, said D.C.’s Department of Behavioral Health, Barbara Bazron. He was found to be competent to participate in his own defense and released back to jail, she said.

He has not been linked to any other shootings.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/nyc-dc-homeless-killer-shooting

Dayva Cross Murdered In Prison

Former death row inmate Dayva Cross was murdered at Walla Walla State Prison in Washington State. Dayva Cross was originally sentenced to death for the murder of his wife and her two daughters in 1999. According to reports Dayva Cross would murder Anouchka Baldwin, Salome Holly, 18, and Amanda Baldwin, 15, in Snoqualmie Washington. A third daughter was able to escape and call police. In 2018 Washington Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment was unconstitutional and all death sentences were commuted to life in prison without parole. Now Dayva Cross has become the victim as he was found murdered in a prison washroom.

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A man who had formerly been on death row for the 1999 murders of his wife and her two daughters was killed at Washington State Penitentiary on Sunday, state Department of Corrections officials said.

Corrections officials said Dayva Cross, 62, was pronounced dead about 1:15 p.m. after he was found in a shower, the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin reported.

Officials said a suspect has been identified and moved to “appropriate housing” pending further investigation.

The Walla Walla County Coroner’s office confirmed Sunday that the death is considered a homicide. Walla Walla Police Department detectives responded to the scene and are investigating.

A Department of Corrections spokesperson told the newspaper Monday afternoon that movement in the unit where Cross died remains restricted.

On March 6, 1999, after arguing with wife Anouchka Baldwin, Cross stabbed her to death along with her daughters Salome Holly, 18, and Amanda Baldwin, 15, in Snoqualmie. He was arrested after another daughter of Anouchka Baldwin’s, then 13, escaped and called police.

A King County Superior Court jury decided in 2001 that Cross should be put to death, rejecting pleas by his lawyers that he was mentally ill and should not be executed.

His death sentence was converted to life in prison when Washington’s Supreme Court ruled in 2018 that the state’s use of capital punishment was unconstitutional.

https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/Police-Ex-death-row-inmate-in-Washington-prison-17002392.php