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News: Shania Gray, 16, Murdered Before She She Could Testify
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Shania Gray, 16, Murdered Before She She Could Testify
Shania Gray, 16, Murdered Before She Could Testify Against Her Alleged Rapist
Her name was Shania Gray.
Gray, a 16-year-old high school junior, never expected her life would come to a tragic end, but it did, all because she had the courage to speak out.
According to Mesquite, Tx. police, the teen met her demise at the hands of Franklin B. Davis, the 30-year-old man she had accused of raping her. He was scheduled to go to trail on four counts of sexual assault of a child next month, but took matters into his own hands, shooting Gray twice before stepping on her neck until she stopped breathing.
Davis met Gray when she was babysitting his two children. And after she declined several times to watch his children again, Gray confessed to her grandmother that Davis had raped her.
Davis claims he never assaulted the teen, and only wanted to talk to Shania last Thursday when he used social media to lure her away from school and kill her.
The Associated Press reports:
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The man insisted in a jailhouse interview Monday that he only wanted to talk to the teen and prove his innocence but said he was overcome by “demons” once they were face-to-face.
Franklin B. Davis, 30, of the Dallas suburb of Irving, was charged with capital murder Sunday in the death of Shania Gray. Gray was last seen alive Thursday afternoon at Hebron High School in nearby Carrollton. Her body was found Saturday in a secluded area near the Trinity River.
Carrollton police say Davis confessed to arranging a meeting with Gray under false pretenses, driving her to a trail near the river and shooting her twice with a .38-caliber pistol. According to an arrest affidavit, Gray fell into the river and called Davis by his nickname: “Why, Wish?”
Davis told police he then stepped on her neck until she stopped breathing, the affidavit said.
Carrollton police spokesman Jon Stovall said in an email that police believe Davis killed Gray because she was about to testify against him.
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Gray confessed to shooting Shania, telling police, he was “[/b]fighting demons,” and felt like “a different person was in me.” He has been charged with capital murder and is being held on $2 million bail.[/b]
Shania Davis’ tragic murder is heartbreaking for her friends and family who remember Davis as a girl who loved to give hugs and talk about her future.
Shelby Holland, Gray’s junior varsity basketball coach at Horn High School, told a local Dallas news outlet, “We want to spend our time talking about the hugs she was constantly giving out, the wonderful life she held for us while she was here. To see the kind of kid she was and that untapped potential for the kind of woman she would become – it’s just sad to sit here and think, `We’ll never know what kind of great young woman she’d become.’”
http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2012/...lleged-rapist/
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This is a pretty old story, because I actually live here, but it is very sad and my prayers go out to her family and friends  And may she RIP.
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Absolutely terrible 
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Member Since: 4/29/2012
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My prayers goes out to her family in these hard time 
Hope that men get trow in jail for YEEEEAAARRSS,disgusting 
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Originally posted by Energy
This is a pretty old story, because I actually live here, but it is very sad and my prayers go out to her family and friends And may she RIP. |
It's sad she isn't getting that much media coverage but everybody was hollering and weeping for that girl who lied about getting kidnapped on twitter.
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So incredibly sad. R.I.P.
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RIP
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What the hell is wrong with him??? He was going to jail either way and he thought by killing her, he would get away with it
Such a heartless bastard and I hope he gets handled in prison
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Tragic story. So sad.
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Originally posted by RastaMentality
It's sad she isn't getting that much media coverage but everybody was hollering and weeping for that girl who lied about getting kidnapped on twitter.
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I live in Dallas/Mesquite and it was a big story here, but other than the DFW metroplex there has been little to no media coverage about it, and that's so sad to me
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OMG
RIP
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I hope he FRIES like the greasy bastard he is.
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This is a pretty old story, because I actually live here, but it is very sad and my prayers go out to her family and friends And may she RIP. |
Omg i used to live in Carrollton. I've never heard of this when did it happen??
I hope that bitch gets his punishment in jail..gets raped by gang members one after another one. I think rape is one of the worst crimes..then on top of that kill the girl wtf..
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Originally posted by Superbitch
Omg i used to live in Carrollton. I've never heard of this when did it happen??
I hope that bitch gets his punishment in jail..gets raped by gang members one after another one. I think rape is one of the worst crimes..then on top of that kill the girl wtf..
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It happened recently, like a month or so ago.
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Ughhhhhhh that is so horrible. I ****ing hate reading things like this.
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RIP Shania Gray
the man is going to jail anyways and now his conviction will be worse.
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Originally posted by Energy
I live in Dallas/Mesquite and it was a big story here, but other than the DFW metroplex there has been little to no media coverage about it, and that's so sad to me |
I also only live about 30-40 minutes away from Mesquite.
This story is so sad. I hate hearing about things like this.
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