Ex-con charged with shooting Bronx dad over parking spot did time for 1997 upstate murder
He’s done it before.The 46-year-old ex-con charged with gunning down a beloved Bronx dad over a parking spot Sunday did 24 years in prison for the cold-blooded killing of a Schenectady man nearly 30 years ago.Lavar Davis was just 18 when he shot and killed Floyd Berkley, 22, on Nov.
9, 1997, and then eluded cops in the upstate city by getting $300 in bus fair from a buddy, the Times Union reported at the time.Davis, of Brooklyn, later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and spent nearly a quarter of a century in state prison until he was paroled on March 11, 2021, state prison records show.Shortly before 2 a.m.
Sunday, the NYPD said Davis and his gal pal parked a car outside the Bronx home of father of four Trevor Hughes, blocking the hard-working dad’s parking spot.After a scuffle, Davis allegedly shot Hughes to death, with the victim’s girlfriend “badly beaten” in the senseless confrontation, Bronx prosecutors said at Davis’ arraignment Monday.According to Bronx Assistant District Attorney Lawrence Rozenblum, Davis’s upstate murder rap is part of a violent criminal history that includes a separate concurrent sentence in Schenectady on a first-degree assault conviction that led to a sentence of 10 to 20 years in prison.
That case stemmed from the shooting of another Brooklynite, 18-year-old Franklin Hemingway.In the 1997 murder, Davis and a co-defendant, Yusef Ramsey, got into a brawl with Berkley in Schenectady, with Ramsey slugging the victim and Davis shooting him, the Times Union reported.Ramsey, who was also from Brooklyn, then loaned Davis $300 to take a bus out of town — although police eventually caught up with both men, the outlet said.Ramsey later pleaded guilty to hindering prosecution and assault in a plea deal after ratting out Davis — who also took a plea in the case.“We struck our deal before Davis’ plea, so we’re standing by it,” then Schenectady Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney Philip Mueller told reporters ...