Daytona Beach, FL – A convicted felon living in Daytona Beach is behind bars for shooting a man in the stomach, even though he claims someone else actually did it.
Kenneth C. Davis was arrested around 2pm Monday at Daytona Beach Police Department headquarters on Valor Boulevard after he drove there to give his side of the story, according to the arrest report.
DBPD says the 31-year-old man Davis allegedly shot picked Davis out of a photo lineup as the man who shot him after undergoing surgery at Halifax Health Medical Center for a bullet wound in his stomach.
Detectives believe it all happened around 1pm Sunday on Haynes Street near the intersection of Orange Avenue.
According to the incident report, the victim was in the front passenger seat of a white Lexus sport utility vehicle going southbound on Haynes when Davis – who was inside a blue minivan parked at a nearby apartment complex – pulled out a handgun and started shooting at him.
The driver of the SUV told DBPD that Davis has had issues with him and his family in the past and that Davis has fired a gun at him before this incident.
The report also noted that the driver of the SUV claimed there was another man in the blue minivan who pulled out a gun and started shooting once Davis did.
Per the report, the driver of the SUV drove the victim to HHMC from the scene after discovering the bullet wound once they managed to get away.
When questioned by DBPD, Davis claimed he was in the area at the time of the shooting but that it was another man – one he only knows by the nickname “Foolish” – who actually shot at the SUV as it drove by.
DBPD is trying to find that man as part of the investigation.
Davis – who has had 31 prior felony charges and 10 prior felony convictions, according to the DBPD report – is held without bond at Volusia County Jail on charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, discharging a firearm from a vehicle and possession of a weapon and/or ammunition by a convicted felon.
Kenneth C. Davis (mugshot courtesy VCJ)
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