Shaniya Davis Funeral Video: Father Bradley Lockhart Said God "Did This for a Reason"
(WRAL)
"Don't let God's words and don't let his actions get you down," Lockhart told the packed congregation. "He did this for a reason."
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November 23, 2009 10:38 AM FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - More than 2000 people joined Shaniya Davis' father, Bradley Lockhart, Sunday, at an emotional funeral for the North Carolina 5-year-old, who, police say, was raped, murdered, then thrown in a pile of trash bags and deer carcasses like she was someone's garbage.
"Don't let God's words and don't let his actions get you down," Lockhart told the packed congregation. "He did this for a reason."
"Don't let God's words and don't let his actions get you down," Lockhart told the packed congregation. "He did this for a reason."
November 20, 2009 8:37 AM 
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - If police have it right, 5-year-old Shaniya Davis was raped, strangled to death, then dumped off a rural North Carolina road near a pile of deer carcasses in trash bags.
The man who they say is at the center of the horrible crime is Mario McNeill, who was seen on a hotel video surveillance tape carrying Shaniya, Nov. 10, the day she went missing.
Shaniya Davis Asphyxiation: 5-Year-Old Raped, Strangled by Mario Andrette McNeill, Say Police
(AP Photo)
The man who they say is at the center of the horrible crime is Mario McNeill, who was seen on a hotel video surveillance tape carrying Shaniya, Nov. 10, the day she went missing.
November 19, 2009 6:30 AM 
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A man who allegedly robbed a Charlotte, N.C. bank took Highway Patrol troopers on a high speed chase Tuesday afternoon.
Turns out the suspect, 29-year-old Carlos DeShawn Burns, had a prior conviction for a more serious offense.
The Tuesday incident started just before 2 p.m. when a Wachovia Bank on West Sugar Creek Road in Charlotte was robbed and Burns took off, according to the FBI.
Wild Police Chase for Alleged N.C. Bank Robber Carlos Burns
(CBS/WBTV)
Turns out the suspect, 29-year-old Carlos DeShawn Burns, had a prior conviction for a more serious offense.
The Tuesday incident started just before 2 p.m. when a Wachovia Bank on West Sugar Creek Road in Charlotte was robbed and Burns took off, according to the FBI.
November 18, 2009 12:49 PM 
NEW YORK - The autopsy of murdered North Carolina 5-year-old Shaniya Davis is now under way, according to Fayatteville, N.C., police, who hope to determine exactly how the little girl died.
Searchers discovered the girl's body Monday, nearly a week after her mother reported her missing from a mobile home park in Fayetteville, about 40 minutes south west of Raleigh.
Shaniya Davis Autopsy Under Way, Police Hope to Learn How 5-Year-Old Died
(Family Photo/WRAL-TV)
Searchers discovered the girl's body Monday, nearly a week after her mother reported her missing from a mobile home park in Fayetteville, about 40 minutes south west of Raleigh.
November 16, 2009 11:31 AM SANFORD, N.C. - Police still hope 5-year-old Shaniya Davis will be found alive, but that hope is dwindling.
About 200 searchers fanned out across several miles southeast of Sanford, N.C. on Monday based on "reliable information" that the missing girl's body may have been discarded, said Fayetteville Police spokeswoman Theresa Chance.
Shaniya Davis Not Found: Cops Fear Missing Child is Dead, Search Focuses on Body
(AP)
About 200 searchers fanned out across several miles southeast of Sanford, N.C. on Monday based on "reliable information" that the missing girl's body may have been discarded, said Fayetteville Police spokeswoman Theresa Chance.
November 16, 2009 10:41 AM 
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - Police have released horrifying still frames from a hotel surveillance video that shows a man carrying missing 5-year-old Shaniya Davis through a hotel hallway and towards an elevator.
Officials say a hotel worker called police to report seeing a child matching Shaniya's description, but by the time police got there, the man and child had left.
Shaniya Davis: Missing 5-Year-Old Seen in Horrifying Hotel Video
(AP Photo/Fayetteville Police Dept)
Officials say a hotel worker called police to report seeing a child matching Shaniya's description, but by the time police got there, the man and child had left.
November 16, 2009 9:47 AM 
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - North Carolina police now say that the mother of 5-year-old Shaniya Nicole Davis, who has been missing since Tuesday, forced her child into sexual servitude and prostitution.
Fayetteville police charged Antoinette Nicole Davis on Saturday with charges including human trafficking, child abuse involving prostitution, filing a false police report and resisting, delaying or obstructing an officer.
According to arrest documents cited by The Fayetteville Observer, Davis "knowingly provide(d) Shaniya Davis with the intent that she be held in sexual servitude" and she "permit(ted) an act of prostitution."
Shaniya Davis Missing: Mother Arrested for Human Trafficking, Putting Daughter in "Sexual Servitude"
(AP/City of Fayetteville Police Dept)
Fayetteville police charged Antoinette Nicole Davis on Saturday with charges including human trafficking, child abuse involving prostitution, filing a false police report and resisting, delaying or obstructing an officer.
According to arrest documents cited by The Fayetteville Observer, Davis "knowingly provide(d) Shaniya Davis with the intent that she be held in sexual servitude" and she "permit(ted) an act of prostitution."
November 11, 2009 10:57 AM FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - Cumberland County authorities say foul play is suspected in the disappearance of Shaniya Nicole Davis. The 5-year-old girl went missing from her home in Fayetteville, N.C. Tuesday morning.
An Amber Alert was initiated for Shaniya just before noon, Lt. David Sportsman said.
Police responded to the home around 6:50 a.m., and Shaniya's mother told officers that she last saw her daughter at 5:30 a.m. The mother’s boyfriend and her sister, along with an infant and Shaniya's 7-year-old brother were also in the home when the girl went missing.
5-Year-Old Shaniya Davis Missing; Foul Play Suspected
(Family Photo/WRAL-TV)
An Amber Alert was initiated for Shaniya just before noon, Lt. David Sportsman said.
Police responded to the home around 6:50 a.m., and Shaniya's mother told officers that she last saw her daughter at 5:30 a.m. The mother’s boyfriend and her sister, along with an infant and Shaniya's 7-year-old brother were also in the home when the girl went missing.
November 3, 2009 1:12 PM 
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (CBS/AP) People who knew William Maxwell say that the 47-year-old real estate developer and active church member loved his family more than anything.
But police say that didn't stop him from shooting to death his wife and two children then himself Monday night in a gruesome murder-suicide that has shaken an upscale Fayetteville, N.C. community, one hour south of Raleigh.
William Maxwell Loved His Family Then He Killed Them, Say N.C. Police
(WRAL)
But police say that didn't stop him from shooting to death his wife and two children then himself Monday night in a gruesome murder-suicide that has shaken an upscale Fayetteville, N.C. community, one hour south of Raleigh.
September 30, 2009 12:22 PM 
ASHEBORO, N.C. - A 911 call is supposed to bring help, but North Carolina University student Courtland Benjamin Smith's desperate 911 call ended in his down death at the hands of police.
Now, a North Carolina judge has refused to release police dash cam video that might shed light on the confrontation that ended in a promising student's death.
The Curious Case of Courtland Benjamin: Cops Won't Release Video of Gunned Down Student
(KHOU)
Now, a North Carolina judge has refused to release police dash cam video that might shed light on the confrontation that ended in a promising student's death.
