The suspect in last month’s shooting death on Summit Ave was tracked down and taken into custody in a Portland motel room last week by the United States Marshals Service.
Prosecutors say the shooting stemmed from an argument in the street and dispute over a girlfriend and that the suspected killer has a record of gun and knife assaults including a recent threat of gun violence in a dispute over a parking space on Capitol Hill.
39-year-old Summit Ave resident Darren Davis has been charged with second degree murder and unlawful possession of a firearm in the Sunday, February 20th murder of Kalani Boward.
Boward, 31, was found down on the Summit Ave sidewalk suffering from multiple gunshot wounds and died after being taken to Harborview. It’s not clear from the court documents if Boward also lived in the area.
According to court documents, the search for Davis began after witnesses to the shooting recognized him as a resident in a week to week apartment building near the scene of the murder. Police say witness accounts describe Davis shooting Broward once in the chest and then continuing to shoot “multiple times as he lay defenseless on the ground.”
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Prosecutors say Davis also showed signs of escalating behavior in the neighborhood around where the deadly shooting took place. Police say Davis was identified as the suspect in this early February felony harassment incident in the 1800 block of Summit:
Police say they were able to link Davis’s Chevy Impala to the harassment investigation.
According to police, Davis had purchased a bus ticket and was waiting to depart Portland for Colorado this week when he was taken into custody by the US Marshals. Police had located his Impala in the parking lot of the motel.
“I didn’t mean to kill that guy” — “it was over a girl,” Davis reportedly told a Deputy Marshal.
The shooting comes amid an increase in gun violence in Seattle officials say stems from pandemic social and economic conditions, social service cutbacks, and the prevalence of firearms. Mayor Bruce Harrell has also backed a “hot spot” approach to addressing the concerns around shootings and street disorder. This murder was the reported seventh homicide in Seattle in 2022.
Prosecutors and police say Davis is “a ten-time convicted felon” with convictions including a 2009 robbery in which he “shot one victim and attempted to shoot others after he robbed them” and an assault in which Davis “repeatedly stabbed the victim on an occupied metro bus as it traveled on route.”
The Seattle Times, first to report Davis’ arrest, reported he was being held in the Multnomah County Detention Center in Portland pending extradition to face charges here. He will be arraigned later this month. His bail is set at $3 million.
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Where is Davis from? How long has he lived in Seattle? Did he arrive here homeless? Was he living in one of the taxpayer funded buildings on that block?
Why was this person even walking around among us…. 10 felonies, at least two is which were extraordinarily violent?
Probably because he was bused here from Florida or Texas or migrated here on his own to the land of no consequences for your actions, regardless of how many repeat offenses or the level of violence involved. Leftwing extremists have turned reality on it’s head and reframed people like Davis as the victims.
Honestly… think what you’re saying through. He performed 10 felonies, but was also bused here from Florida or Texas – and THIS is the “land of no consequences”? Does that make sense?
Has anyone ever treated this person as a victim or is that just convenient for you to suggest? I notice you ask a bunch of questions in a separate comment thread suggesting you know next to nothing about him.
All we actually know is he’s a repeat offender who killed someone and was quickly tracked and apprehended. You can’t pre-arrest someone for being a criminal in the past. And that street has a lot of transitional housing for people with convictions that bar them from other places. This turns out badly sometimes as you’d expect. Sucks but what’s the alternative? NIMBYs won’t have them in the suburbs. Crime is just as bad in cheaper parts of Seattle. Put them out on the street? Now they’re homeless too and become part of the OTHER problem you bring up but don’t have any solution to. Think about it, Mr Reality! THEN comment!
“You can’t pre-arrest someone for being a criminal in the past.”
True, but you can keep the person in prison for a very long time, especially someone who has committed TEN felonies. Hopefully, that’s what will happen this time.
I love “tough on crime” people who think that throwing people in prison for a long time, rather than trying to reform them, doesn’t just cement people’s status as criminals. While it’s true that there are some people that can’t be reformed, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to reform anyone.
The US has nearly 1% of it’s population currently locked up. There are some states closer to 1.5%, with a correlation between higher prison rates and crime with a lot of states. The next highest prison rates by country? Russia at 0.6% and South Africa at 0.3%. Not exactly good company, especially considering a good portion of Russia’s prisoners are political prisoners, not criminals.
The “tough on crime” people have failed our country, but are still in power. The sooner they get voted out or die, the sooner we can start fixing our country.
He’s the shining example of our justice system, which is partially run by and heavily influenced by for-profit prison companies. This leads to a prison system that is focused on punishment only rather than reformation, because reducing recidivism hurts their bottom line.
But I guess it’s much easier to blame it on those durn librulz rather than actually fixing our justice system and society to be in line with other first world countries. 🤷
Exactly. Time to charge, prosecute, convict, and send to the big house for many, many years.
It’s amazing how common guns are even though they are literally the most dangerous thing that exists in our society. It’s why cops are trigger happy too because they think everyone has a gun. It’s why people die instead of going to intensive care for knife wounds. This is just one more example of why guns should be eradicated from our society. This will obviously never happen and these tragedies will plague us forever.
Guns are a necessary evil. Look at what the Ukrainians are going through. Would you rather they had knives instead?
Hmm, so you’re saying we need to arm ourselves to fend off invasion by one of our neighbors? So, Canada and/or Mexico?
Also, we have (probably) the most advanced and well stocked military on the planet. I doubt someone packing a .45 handgun is going to be much of a threat to another superpower if they manage to overtake our military forces.
Most people around here blindly support politicians and judges who go easy on violent criminals. People are confused and cannot have it both ways. Do you want to defund police, let violent criminals off easy, tear down the criminal justice system? Or do you want safe streets?
OK, I’m just going to gently push back and suggest that hydrogen bombs are just a tick or two worse than guns. YMMV!
I understand the point you are trying to make about Moving Soon’s slightly hyperbolic statement but at the same time, we don’t see daily news reports of random hydrogen bomb killings. While I get that it’s an existential threat, it’s less of one that I have to worry befalling me daily as I walk to the store or coming home at night from a bar.
This guy didn’t need a gun to be a walking menace to society… I’m sure the person he stabbed multiple times and all the traumatized people who were trapped on the Metro bus while he was doing it, would agree….
Oh, well, he didn’t mean it. It was over a girl, as he said. No problem then. We’ve all been there.
What’s going on Pine/Olive end of Bellevue/Summit? Does it count as a “hot spot”? I feel like there’s been an incident every week. ( I would consider someone shooting up occupied apartments an incident even if nobody was hit.)
I sure hope he does not go before one of those soft on crime release them all on personal recognizance judges we seem to have in King county. He needs to stay locked up!
I just read through most of the comments. What is missing is that Kalani is a father of 2 boys. He was a friend of mine. He had his demons. But was also on the up swing. This guy would do anything for somebody that cared for him. I was the lucky person to work with him and could call him a friend. Now the guy that killed Kalani should not have been on the streets. I believe is true. 10x a felon. He is proof recidivism happens. I can go on. And I believe that people should get a 2nd chance. But this guy killed my good friend.