Man Charged With Murder in North Carolina Missing Girl Case
Thursday, November 19, 2009 / Associated Press
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — A man already accused of kidnapping a 5-year-old North Carolina girl faces new charges that he raped and asphyxiated her, police said Thursday.
Mario McNeill is being charged with first-degree murder and first-degree rape of a child, Fayetteville Police Chief Tom Bergamine told reporters at a news conference.
McNeill, 29, was already accused of taking Shaniya Davis from her Fayetteville home. Her body was found Monday in thick underbrush off a rural North Carolina road after searchers spent nearly a week looking for her.
Bergamine declined to discuss further details of the investigation Thursday. But he did express hope that the girl's family could move forward.
"It is our sincere hope that the Davis family may now begin to put this horrific event behind them and begin the healing process," he said.
McNeill's lawyer, Allen Rogers, did not immediately respond to a message left at his office after hours.
A search warrant says McNeill picked the girl up in front of the home and drove her to a hotel where she was last seen alive.
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Saturday, November 21, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
SHANIYA DAVIS: MOM SELLS HER TO EXECUTIONER
Searchers Find Body of Missing Girl
By ALYSIA PATTERSON / AP / Monday 11/16/09
SANFORD, N.C. (Nov. 16) — A missing 5-year-old whose mother was accused of offering her for sex was found dead off a heavily wooded road in a rural area Monday, ending a weeklong search, police said.
Searchers found Shaniya Davis' body early Monday afternoon about 100 feet off a road southeast of Sanford, in central North Carolina, Fayetteville Police spokeswoman Theresa Chance said. She declined to comment on a cause of death or the condition of Shaniya's body.
"We've got a lot of people out at the scene right now that are torn up," Chance said. "Detectives have been running off adrenaline to find this little girl and to bring her home alive. You have a lot of people in shock right now."
Two people have been charged in her disappearance, one of them her mother, Antoinette Davis, 25. Police charged Davis with human trafficking and felony child abuse, saying Shaniya was offered for prostitution.
Davis was calm and quiet during a five-minute court appearance in Fayetteville on Monday afternoon. She provided one-word answers to the judge's questions and held her hands in front of her, without handcuffs. She requested a court-appointed attorney and did not enter a plea.
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SHANIYA DAVIS: She was only five years old. So many hearts are crushed over Shaniya's death. My prayers are sent to the grieving family, and to the man who loved her so much, Shaniya's father.
...CHOMP
By ALYSIA PATTERSON / AP / Monday 11/16/09
SANFORD, N.C. (Nov. 16) — A missing 5-year-old whose mother was accused of offering her for sex was found dead off a heavily wooded road in a rural area Monday, ending a weeklong search, police said.
Searchers found Shaniya Davis' body early Monday afternoon about 100 feet off a road southeast of Sanford, in central North Carolina, Fayetteville Police spokeswoman Theresa Chance said. She declined to comment on a cause of death or the condition of Shaniya's body.
"We've got a lot of people out at the scene right now that are torn up," Chance said. "Detectives have been running off adrenaline to find this little girl and to bring her home alive. You have a lot of people in shock right now."
Two people have been charged in her disappearance, one of them her mother, Antoinette Davis, 25. Police charged Davis with human trafficking and felony child abuse, saying Shaniya was offered for prostitution.
Davis was calm and quiet during a five-minute court appearance in Fayetteville on Monday afternoon. She provided one-word answers to the judge's questions and held her hands in front of her, without handcuffs. She requested a court-appointed attorney and did not enter a plea.
READ MORE ABOUT THIS TRAGIC STORY, AND SENSELESS LOSS...
http://news.aol.com/main/nc/article/body-of-missing-girl-shaniya-davis-found/764600
SHANIYA DAVIS: She was only five years old. So many hearts are crushed over Shaniya's death. My prayers are sent to the grieving family, and to the man who loved her so much, Shaniya's father.
...CHOMP
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