Larry Davis (born 1966)

Larry Davis or, since 1989, Adam Abdul-Hakeem (May 28, 1966 – February 20, 2008) was an American man, convicted in 1991 of a drug dealer's 1986 murder,[1] yet known for his 1986 shootout in the Bronx with police, hitting six officers, asserting self-defense, and 1988 acquittal of all but gun charges.[2][3] In 2008, he died via stabbing by a fellow inmate.[4]

On November 19, 1986, nine New York City police officers, with nearly 20 outside the building, raided the Bronx apartment of Davis's sister.[5] In the ensuing shootout, Davis, black, age 20, escaped basically uninjured. While all six shot officers survived, police explained the raid as an attempt to question Davis as a multiple-murder suspect, finally obtained an arrest warrant for that, and reexplained the raid as an attempt to arrest him.[6] On a massive manhunt's 17th day, he was traced to a Bronx building, and hid in an unknown family's unit.[7] Telephoned by the police, he claimed to hold its occupants hostage.[5] After nightlong negotiations, convinced by media presence that police would not shoot, he surrendered peacefully.[8]

Davis's legal defense, led by William Kunstler,[9] explained the raid as a pretense to murder Davis for knowledge of officers' alleged complicity in illicit drug sales and to punish him for abandoning his own drug dealing under them.[2] In March 1988, on jury trial for a killing of four drug dealers—allegedly the 1986 raid's reason—Davis was acquitted.[3] Then in November, as to the nine raiding and six shot officers, his acquittal of aggravated assault and attempted murder triggered widespread outrage.[4] About 1 000 New York City police officers publicly demonstrated.[5] Yet for many others, Davis became a folk hero.[10] Still others thought him an unsavory character, but probably truthful about the police and the shootout.[11]

Serving five to 15 years on the November 1988 convictions for illegal gun possession, Davis was acquitted of another alleged drug dealer's murder.[5] But in a third murder trial, about another alleged drug dealer, Davis was convicted,[2] and sentenced to 25 years to life.[12] Converting to Islam, he changed his name. Maintaining his innocence, he continued to allege that the police had framed him.[5] A prevalent view attributes his infamous acquittal, rather, to racial bias by a proverbial "Bronx jury."[1][13] But particularly with the Mollen Commission's 1990s exposure of widespread criminality, including drug dealing and violence, by New York City police officers,[14] and then a 2003 independent documentary favoring Davis's explanation, his story continues to provoke divided reactions.[11][15][16]

Early and personal life

An aspiring rapper,[5] Davis was known by peers as musically talented, playing multiple instruments, as well as entrepreneurial, reputedly operating small music studios in the Bronx and Manhattan, while avid for repairing and modifying motorcycles.[15]

Davis's peers acknowledge that by midway through adolescence, Davis was dealing drugs, but claim that he ceased once the woman expecting his first child miscarried and then he learned of her crack use, which he blamed.[15][16]

Davis had one child, a daughter, Larrima Davis, born July 27, 1986.[17]

Problems with police

Davis's arrest record, starting in early 1983, involves a 1984 robbery conviction, which would premise a probation violation.[18] By the November 1986 shootout, a court hearing for it had been postponed four times.[19] Soon after the successful manhunt, however, the Bronx District Attorney's office alleged that, as The New York Times then paraphrased, "Davis was part of a small, loosely organized, 'very violent' group of gunmen who have robbed, assaulted and slain drug dealers in the Bronx and northern Manhattan in recent months".[20]

Approaching trial, the district attorney's office had one witness outside of law enforcement: Roy L. Gray, who admitted under oath to steering "traffic to coke spots."[21] Allegedly, on October 26, 1986, in Manhattan's Washington Heights section, Gray was robbed of $2, and four days later, October 30, in the borough's Harlem section, spotted the robber, later understood as Davis, about to rob some cocaine dealers, too.[21] Reportedly, Gray thus alerted the police, and then rode in the police car that chased the getaway car, carrying Davis and two other men, to the Bronx's Highbridge section, where, along Jerome Avenue, upon issuing three gunshots at the police, the three men evaded arrest by vanishing into an apartment building.[21]

In early November, acting on a tip, police sought Davis, but failed to find him, at his sister's apartment within 1231 Fulton Avenue in the Bronx's Morrisania section.[5][3] Once they returned to the apartment on November 19, the infamous shootout occurred. After it, the police department explained the raid as an effort to question him, but later reexplained it as an attempt to arrest him, albeit without an arrest warrant for him.[6] Months later, once the police alleged a Jerome Avenue car chase with gunshots fired at police 20 days before the infamous raid, "officials from the Bronx District Attorney's office and the Police Department deflected questions about why no warrant had been issued for Mr. Davis's arrest after the Jerome Avenue incident. Each agency referred questions to the other."[21] At some point, a senior police official argued that "once you move to introduce an accusatory instrument, you lose the benefit of being able to talk to that person."[21]

In any case, the police reported that Gray, as a robbery victim of Davis, examined photos and provided the "positive identification" of Davis, that Davis's fingerprints were in the getaway car, that two shell casings, recovered from the scene, matched the pistol on Davis at his December 6 arrest, and that ballistics tests tied this gun to the killings of four suspected drug dealers in Manhattan just hours before the October 30 car chase from Manhattan to the Bronx.[21] Davis maintained, instead, that the police had framed him for these murders.[5] Similarly, Davis's attorneys William Kunstler and Lynne Stewart as well as Davis's peers and family would altogether contend that five years before the shootout, certain police officers had recruited Davis, age 15, to deal drugs under their sponsorship, and thereupon tolerated, likewise, the dealing of Davis's peers soon working under him, but began harassing them and communicating death threats for Davis once he stopped dealing drugs in late 1986 while withholding drug proceeds,[15][6] reputedly some $40,000.[16]

Shootout and escape

On the evening of Wednesday, November 19, 1986, acting on a tip, an NYPD team of 27 from the 41st Precinct and the Emergency Service Unit, the ESU, converged on the six-story, Fulton Avenue apartment building where two of Davis's sisters had adjoining apartments on the ground floor. At about 8:30 p.m., 15 officers surrounded the building and 12 others entered; nine of these went to the three-room apartment of Davis's sister Regina Lewis and seven entered it. Inside were Davis, his girlfriend, his sister, her husband, and four children. Lewis's two infant children were asleep in the bedroom at the rear.[18]

Interviewed the next day, Regina Lewis reportedly once she answered a door knock, the police entered the living room with guns drawn, ordered the adults to get the children out, and called, "Come out, Larry, you don't have a chance—we've got you surrounded." At trial, the police alleged that Davis had fired first. The jury believed the events presented by the defense, in which an officer entered the apartment with a shotgun and fired at Davis, while he was seated behind a desk holding his baby. The officer, thinking he had hit Davis, was then shot in the neck by Davis with a handgun. The police took cover, returning fire as they retreated. In the confusion, no one kept track of Davis, who slipped into his other sister's apartment and escaped out a back window. Lewis had complained to her brother about him bringing guns to the apartment and told him to get out; he did leave but returned. She also quoted him as telling her, "If I'm caught in the street, the police are going to shoot me. But I am going to shoot them first."[22]

Police collected the shotgun and the expended shells from the .45-caliber pistol that Davis took with him. A .32-caliber revolver and .357 Magnum pistol were also left behind.[18] Ballistics tests would later link the .32-caliber revolver to the Manhattan drug dealer killing and the .45 caliber pistol to the four dead Bronx dealers.[23] A police official said that all escape routes had been covered by officers but none apparently saw Davis leave. He also said that the wounded officers were unable to return fire effectively due to the presence in the apartment of the two infants and other bystanders. Davis fired four shotgun rounds and nine .45 caliber pistol shots; the police fired four shotgun rounds and 20 pistol shots. Neither Davis nor the two infants with him in the bedroom were wounded.[18]

In the following year, three of the wounded officers accused the NYPD of "negligent" and "reckless" planning and execution of the raid, and blamed the Bronx detectives for creating "chaos" by bursting into the apartment before Emergency Service Unit officers could seal off escape routes.[24]

Search and capture

The six wounded officers were carried across the street to the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital and the manhunt began. The surrounding area and the rest of the building were searched immediately. Police stakeouts were set up at terminals, bridges and tunnels leading out of the city and a nationwide alarm was issued. As the manhunt spread, raids were staged in Chicago, Albany, Newark and other cities where Davis had relatives or friends. A man who said he was Davis called ABC-TV, expressing fears he would be beaten by police and stating he would not be taken alive.[18]

Acting on a tip that Davis had been seen entering his mother's home four days after the escape, police searched the building while interviewing Mary Davis in a laundromat across the street. She suffered an apparent heart attack shortly thereafter.[25] As she recuperated three days later, she urged her son to call the NAACP, who had offered to help arrange a safe surrender.

On the afternoon of December 5, 1986, police received another tip that Davis had been seen entering the Bronx housing project where his sister Margaret lived. They surrounded the 14-story building, closed off local streets and posted sharpshooters on nearby rooftops. After searching his sister's second-floor apartment, police began a systematic canvass of all 312 units. At some point during the day, Mr. Davis forced his way at gunpoint into Apartment 14-EB, where Elroy and Sophia Sewer lived with their two daughters, just as neighbor Theresa Ali, and her 2-year-old son, arrived for a visit. Mr. Sewer arrived home at 8 P.M. to find his family and the neighbors being held hostage by Mr. Davis. At 11:45 p.m. Davis released the two visitors and sent Mr. Sewer out to pick up food from a nearby Chinese restaurant. He also ordered Mr. Sewer to call Mr. Davis' mother's and sister's tapped telephones and give false location information. When the husband returned with the food he was stopped for questioning by the police and, at 12:45 a.m., informed them that his wife and two daughters were being held hostage by Mr. Davis.[8]

Police set up a command post in a nearby apartment and by 1:30 a.m. had established telephone contact. At one point Davis threatened to kill the hostages with a hand grenade, at other points he chatted with negotiators about stereo equipment, asked about a lawyer, and showed concern for his own safety, saying that he was afraid police would harm him. Throughout, negotiators repeated "There is no use running, you have nowhere to hide now."[26] To assure Davis that he would not be harmed, police showed him the press credentials of three reporters in a nearby apartment and allowed him to speak to his girlfriend. At about 7 a.m. Larry Davis laid down his .45-caliber pistol and surrendered. As he was taken from the building in handcuffs, residents leaned out of their windows, clapped, and chanted Davis's name.[8]

Murder and murder-attempt trials

The Bronx District Attorney, along with the District Attorney in Manhattan and in Long Island, had many charges against Larry Davis. They included weapons possession, murder of drug dealers, attempted murder of police, kidnapping, and automobile theft.

Despite three trials in two years, prosecutors were unable to convince a jury of that Larry Davis was guilty for any but the weapons charge—the ones he used in shooting the police officers—until a jury convicted him and his brother, Eddie Davis, in the August 1986 killing of a drug dealer.

Four, Bronx drug dealers: March 1988 acquittal

The four killings occurred in October 1986.

The prosecution, contending that Davis was a crack dealer who specialized in the armed robbery of rival crack dealers, called over 50 witnesses, encompassing ballistic evidence and fingerprints on a cash box placing Davis at the crime scene.

Davis's attorneys William Kunstler and Lynne Stewart, in their opening and closing arguments, contended that the prosecution's evidence was fabricated, framing Davis to excuse the infamous raid. They contended Davis had been recruited into a drug ring by rogue police officers, aiming to kill him in the raid.

The jury found conflicting testimony from witnesses, and discrepancies in times stated by prosecution witnesses. After deliberating for nine days—then the longest in Bronx history for a single defendant—the jury acquitted Davis.[27]

Attempts on nine officers: November 1988 acquittal

Davis faced numerous charges from the infamous shootout, where he shot six police officers: nine counts of attempted murder, six counts of aggravated assault, eight counts of criminal weapons possession, and two counts of criminal firearm use. Convicted only on criminal weapons possession, Davis was sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison.

During jury selection, the defense accused the prosecution of refusing black women, likely to empathize with Davis. The judge ruled that the defense, likewise abusing peremptory challenges, had had excluded white jurors on racial reasoning. Dismissing the first six seated jurors, then, Judge Fried declared a mistrial.[28] A second mistrial was declared, at the request of both sides, once the new jury's only white expressed concern that acquitting Davis would subject him to harassment by police.[29] Finally seated was a jury of ten blacks and two Hispanics.[3]

During trial, ballistic experts incriminated the .45-caliber pistol allegedly seized at Davis's capture. Several wounded officers, including "point man" Thomas McCarren, who had entered first, identified Davis as the shooter. McCarren testified that once he entered the apartment, Davis rose from a sofa and, carrying a handgun, ran down a narrow hall to a back bedroom, prompting pursuit by McCarren, who next sustained gunfire to his mouth upon seeing Davis fire the pistol at him. But a 12-gauge shotgun slug was embedded in the bedroom's dresser drawer.

The defense implicated that McCarren, carrying a shotgun, had firing first, missing Davis but putting the slug in the dresser drawer. McCarren countered that he had earlier given his shotgun to a detective assigned to cover the building's rear, and himself had only a 38-caliber revolver while entering the apartment.[30] In any case, the defense contended that Davis, knowing that police officers sought to kill him, shot in self-defense. They charged that police officers were corrupt and involved in the drug trade.[31] Davis's mother testified that two weeks before the raid, a police officer had pushed her and threatened to kill him.[17] She testified, further, that she had warned her son, and had complained to the police department's Civilian Complaint Review Board, which sustained her complaint.[17]

On November 20, 1988, after deliberating 38 hours over five days, the jury acquitted Davis of all charges, except six counts of criminal possession of a weapon.[3] Interviewed afterward, the jury forewoman said Davis was a "young and innocent kid who got recruited by a few corrupt policemen."[31] McCarren, most seriously wounded, forced into retirement, called it "a racist verdict," and added, "The day this happened, a bunch of good honest police officers went to lock up Larry Davis because he had killed people, and not for anything else." Defense attorney Kunstler said, "The jury understood what happened—that he acted in self-defense." Defense attorney Stewart quipped, "I really think that the black community is no longer going to have black Sambos—they're going to have black Rambos."[3]

Harlem drug dealer: December 1989 acquittal

Victor Lagombra, reputedly a "mid-level" crack dealer in Harlem, Manhattan, was murdered in September 1986.

David went on trial for the murder in October 1989. The prosecution accused Davis of robbing two drug dealers when surprised by Lagombra walking into the apartment, prompting Davis's "cold-blooded act of savagery." Ballistics tests tied Davis's 32-caliber revolver to the killing.[23][32] Two defense witnesses testified that, on the day of the murder, Davis was in Florida making a rap album.[33]

After the five-week trial, the jury returned from its three-day deliberation on a Saturday night, December 4, 1989, with the verdict, again not guilty. Although not Davis's attorney in this case, William Kunstler repeated that Davis had helped rogue police officers sell drugs, and said that the chronic accusations against Davis reflect a conspiracy.[33]

Bronx drug dealer: March 1991 conviction

Raymond Vizcaino, reputedly a drug dealer in the Bronx, was murdered in August 1986.

In January 1987, Davis's older brother Eddie Davis was arrested and charged. Allegedly, Eddie and Larry, along with two others, attempting robbery at a Webster Avenue apartment, shot through the door, killing Vizcaino. A jury convicted Eddie Davis in June 1989.[34]

Larry Davis's trial began five months later. On the night of March 14, 1991, the jury found him guilty.[35] Already serving 5 to 15 years on weapons convictions, Larry received another 25 years to life. Once sentenced, creating a loud scene until the judge expelled him, Davis spoke for about an hour, airing again his longstanding complaint that the police and the judicial system were conducting a vendetta against him.[12]

Death

Davis was serving his sentence at Shawangunk Correctional Facility near the Ulster County hamlet of Wallkill. At approximately 7 p.m. on February 20, 2008, a correctional officer overseeing the block yard noticed inmates congregating around an argument between two inmates. When the officer went to break it up, he found Davis using his walking cane to fend off an inmate from attacking him with a 9 inch (23 cm) long metal shiv. Davis was unsuccessful and was stabbed numerous times. The officer called for assistance and the attacker was restrained and taken to the Special Housing Unit to remain in segregated custody. Davis was taken to the facility infirmary where first aid was rendered. Davis lost much blood, lost consciousness and eventually showed no vital signs. Not being a trauma level infirmary, the supervising nurse called for an emergency transport by ambulance to St. Luke's Hospital in nearby Newburgh, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.[36]

After questioning by the state police and the New York State Department of Correctional Services's (DOCS) inspector general's office, another inmate, Luis Rosado, 42, was charged with murder.[37]

Rosado was already serving a sentence of 25 years to life for murder and assault charges in the early 1980s, and had been denied parole in 2007. He was arraigned at Shawangunk Town Court the next morning. DOCS officials said both he and Davis had long disciplinary records, including fights with other inmates, but there was no record of any previous violence between the two.[37]

On July 31, 2008, an Ulster County grand jury indicted Rosado on nine felony charges related to the stabbing, including three different counts of murder, assault, criminal possession of a weapon and possession of prison contraband. The murder charges carried a potential sentence of life without parole. After his arrest, Rosado was moved to Clinton Correctional Facility, located in upstate New York close to the Canadian border.[38] On Wednesday, February 25, 2009, Luis Rosado pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in Ulster County Court and was sentenced to an additional 10 years in prison, to be served consecutively with his current 25-to-life sentence for murder.[39]

Davis is survived by his daughter Larrima Davis.

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6. David J. Langum, William M. Kunstler: The Most Hated Lawyer in America (New York & London: New York University Press, 1999), p 296.
7. Purdum, Todd S. (1986-12-07). "Friends helped Davis to stay in shadow". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-12-16. Larry Davis eluded an intensive manhunt for 17 days by relying on a network of street friends and family contacts who gave him money and shelter as he slipped from place to place in the Bronx and upper Manhattan, law-enforcement officials said yesterday.
8. McFadden, Robert D. (1986-12-07). "Cornered in manhunt, Davis surrenders in Bronx". The New York Times.
9. Jeffrey Rosen, "The trials of William Kunstler", New York Times, 18 Sep 1994, § 7, p 16.
10. Freedman, Samuel G. (1987-01-02). "To some, Davis is a 'hero' amid attacks on blacks". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-02-23.
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12. Wolff, Craig (1991-04-26). "Defiant Larry Davis gets 25 years to life in killing". The New York Times.
13. Stephan Thernstrom & Abigail Thernstrom, America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible (New York: Touchstone, 1999), p 517.
14. Leonard Levitt, NYPD Confidential: Power and Corruption in the Country's Greatest Police Force (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2009), indexing "Mollen Commission". In contemporary journalism, Craig Wolff, "Tales of police corruption not surprising, 46th Precinct residents say", New York City, 10 Oct 1993, reports, in part, "The 46th Precinct is in the Fordham section of the Bronx. It is a crime-ridden precinct where, the Mollen Commission was told, some of the department's worst officers were commonly 'dumped.' And it is where 'the Mechanic' worked, a convicted officer who earned the nickname for the tune-ups,' or beatings, he performed on drug suspects and innocent bystanders alike. The Police Department says there is no policy of using any precinct, including the 46th, as a place of exile for troublesome officers". Nearly two years later, Clifford Krauss, "Police officer convicted of extorting payoffs", New York Times, 21 Apr 1995, reports that perhaps some 30 officers in the 46th Precinct were involved in various criminal activity in the community.
15. Troy Reed, director, The Larry Davis Story: A Routine Typical Hit (New York, NY: Street Stars, Inc, 2003), cited by Robert Louden, "Davis, Larry (1966–2008)", in Delores D. Jones-Brown, Beverly D. Frazier & Marvie Brooks, editors, African Americans and Criminal Justice: An Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood/ABC-CLIO, 2014).
16. Azie Faison with Agyei Tyehimba, Game Over: The Rise and Transformation of a Harlem Hustler (New York, NY: Atria Books, 2007), pp 111–112.
17. Blair, William G (1988-10-08). "Mother details officer's threat to kill Davis". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-12-27. The mother of Larry Davis testified yesterday that a police officer had threatened to kill him several weeks before a shootout in 1986 between him and the police.
18. McFadden, Robert D. (21 Nov 1986). "New York Police in citywide hunt for gunman who shot 6 officers". New York Times.
19. David J Krajicek, "Justice stands on its head after Bronx massacre in 1986", New York Daily News, 3 Oct 2010.
20. McFadden, Robert D. (9 Dec 1986). "Davis cited as member of violent assault gang". New York Times. Larry Davis was part of a small, loosely organized, 'very violent' group of gunmen who have robbed, assaulted and slain drug dealers in the Bronx and northern Manhattan in recent months, the Bronx District Attorney said yesterday.
21. French, Howard W. (1987-10-18). "New picture emerges in case of Larry Davis". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-02-22.
22. Ravo, Nick (1986-11-21). "Suspect to sister: 'I'm going to shoot them first'". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-12-17. A few weeks ago, Regina Lewis asked her brother, Larry Davis, why he had to keep bringing guns into her South Bronx apartment. His answer: The police were after him.
23. McFadden, Robert D. (1986-12-08). "Ballistics link 2 Davis pistols and shooting". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-12-21. Ballistic tests show that the gun seized with Larry Davis Saturday was used in the execution-style killing of four drug dealers in the Bronx in October as well as the shootout that left six police officers wounded last month, law-enforcement officials said yesterday.
24. Purdum, Todd S. (1987-08-29). "3 Officers Assert Police Bungled Davis Shootout". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-12-17. Three of the six New York City police officers wounded in a shootout with Larry Davis in the Bronx last November have charged in legal papers that they were injured because the Police Department severely bungled the attempt to arrest the suspect, who was wanted for killing four drug dealers.
25. McFadden, Robert D. (1986-11-22). "Hunt grows for suspect in shooting". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-12-27. The hunt for the suspected killer who shot and wounded six police officers in a Bronx apartment Wednesday night spread across the nation yesterday as rewards totaling $15,000 were offered for the capture and conviction of the fugitive.
26. Gutis, Philip S. (1986-12-07). "On the 14th floor, siege ends in quiet talk". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-12-27. At times, the police said, the man holed up in the apartment next door spoke very much like a 'frightened child,' concerned solely with his personal safety. At other times, they said, he changed strategies, threatening violence and saying he had a gun and a hand grenade.
27. Verhovek, Sam Howe (1988-03-04). "Larry Davis cleared in the 1986 slayings of 4 drug Suspects". The New York Times.
28. Ver Hovek, Sam Howe (1988-05-03). "Davis jury selection Is halted over bias issue". The New York Times.
29. Blair, William G (1988-06-29). "Judge declares 2d mistrial in Larry Davis case in Bronx". The New York Times.
30. Blair, William G (1988-09-28). "Ex-detective denies firing a shotgun in the Davis raid". The New York Times. A retired Bronx detective testified yesterday that he never carried a shotgun or fired a shotgun at Larry Davis during a shootout with him in a Bronx apartment in 1986 in which the detective was wounded.
31. Verhovek, Sam Howe (1988-11-22). "Davis juror defends verdict and ward assails it". The New York Times.
32. "Statement to Davis Trial Jury". The New York Times. 1989-11-05.
33. Wolff, Craig (1989-12-04). "Larry Davis not guilty of drug dealer's murder". The New York Times.
34. "Larry Davis's Elder Brother Convicted of a Bronx Murder". The New York Times. 1989-06-13. Retrieved 2007-12-19. Larry Davis's brother, Eddie, has been convicted of murdering a suspected Bronx narcotics dealer during a robbery attempt, the Bronx District Attorney's office said yesterday.
35. Tomasson, Robert E (1991-03-15). "Larry Davis convicted in killing of a drug dealer". The New York Times.
36. Garland, Sarah (2008-02-21). "Man Arraigned in Killing of Police Shooter". New York Sun. Retrieved 2008-02-21. His attacker, identified by officials as Luis Rosado, was being charged with the killing, which officials said took place at 7 p.m. last night during a recreational period in the prison's B block yard. The three prison guards stationed in the yard with 22 inmates, including Rosado and Davis, said they saw Rosado assaulting Davis with a 9-inch metal shank, according to officials. Prison guards helped Davis into a building and called an ambulance, according to officials. He was treated in the ambulance on his way to St. Luke's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:46 p.m. with multiple wounds to his head, chest, arms, back, and legs, officials said.
37. O'Connor, Anahad (2008-02-21). "Man in 1986 Police Gunfight Is Killed". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-02-21. Mr. Davis, 41, was stabbed to death by another inmate around 7:30 p.m. during a recreational break on the grounds of the Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Ulster County, about 80 miles north of New York City, corrections officials said. The other inmate, Luis Rosado, used a crude, nine-inch shank to stab Mr. Davis repeatedly in his head, arms, back and chest, said Erik Kriss, a spokesman for the Department of Corrections ... Mr. Rosado, 42, was serving a sentence of 25 years to life for multiple counts of murder, assault and attempted assault. He had a long and extensive history of being disciplined for violent behavior during his incarceration — including assaults on staff and other inmates — corrections officials said, and had just recently been denied parole in 2007. Mr. Davis also had a long history of being disciplined while incarcerated. His prison records indicate approximately 75 incidents that merited disciplinary action, including assaulting staff and inmates, making threats, harassment, and fighting, Linda Foglia, a corrections spokeswoman, said in an interview on Thursday ... But it did not appear however that Mr. Davis and Mr. Rosado had a history of fighting with each other.
38. "Inmate indicted in slaying of fellow prisoner at Shawangunk Correctional". Times-Herald Record. Ottaway Community Newspapers. 2008-08-05. Retrieved 2008-08-05. Luis Rosado, 42, was indicted Thursday on two counts of first-degree murder, a single count of second-degree murder, two counts each of first- and second-degree assault and single counts of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon and possession of prison contraband. All the charges are felonies ... Since his arrest, he's been moved to the maximum security Clinton Correction Facility near the Canadian boundary, according to state corrections records.
39. Bronx man pleads guilty to stabbing death of notorious prisoner, Times Herald-Record, February 25, 2009