Larry " Crackhead' Davis - Wounded 6 NYPD officers
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officers in a 1986 gunfight that led to a nationwide manhunt was
killed in prison, corrections officials said Thursday.
Larry Davis, serving 25 years to life on a murder conviction in an
unrelated case, was stabbed to death around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday during
a recreational break at Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Ulster
County, said Erik Kriss, a spokesman for the state Department of
Correctional Services.
Davis was stabbed repeatedly with a 12-by-1 1/2-inch homemade metal
shank in the arms, head, back, upper thigh and chest, Kriss said.
"I don't know what was happening at this exact moment," he said,
adding that prison staff were in the yard when a fight was observed
and inmates began congregating. "Things happen quickly."
Another inmate at the prison 80 miles north of the city was being
questioned in Davis' death by state police and the inspector general
for corrections and had been placed in a segregated cell, Kriss said.
The inmate had not been charged in Davis' death as of early Thursday.
Davis, 41, had most recently been convicted in 1991 of fatally
shooting a suspected drug dealer in the Bronx.
Five years earlier, police had gone to an apartment to arrest him as a
suspect in the slayings of five other drug dealers.
During the ensuing shootout, Davis escaped unhurt through a window,
setting off a 17-day manhunt that involved hundreds of officers. He
eventually surrendered to police after being tracked to a housing
project where one of his sisters lived, where he held a woman and her
children hostage in an all-night standoff before giving up, police
said at the time.
At his trial, the defense contended that the officers were trying to
kill Davis because he had knowledge about police corruption, and
opened fire in self-defense. Prosecutors said Davis was trying to
evade arrest by shooting at the officers.
A jury acquitted him of attempted murder and aggravated assault. He
was instead convicted on weapons charges and sentenced to five to 15
years in prison.
The gunfight and Davis' flight from the law made him a folk hero to
some and a symbol of outrage to others, especially law enforcement.
More than 1,500 officers demonstrated after the verdict was announced.
Loki
<islan...@aol.com> wrote:
>NEW YORK -- A man who gained notoriety after wounding six police
>officers in a 1986 gunfight that led to a nationwide manhunt was
>killed in prison, corrections officials said Thursday.
Good riddance.
Loki
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