George Robert Davis, known as Bob, was a 48-year-old Mendocino County deputy who was shot and killed on the night of April 14, 1995, while on duty in Round Valley. He and Deputy Dennis Miller were on a remote reservation road conducting a stakeout for a suspect in an earlier fatal shooting in Covelo when Davis was ambushed and fatally shot. A second man, Leonard Acorn Peters, also died during the shootout.

Davis was a 21-year U.S. Navy veteran, including service with SEAL Teams, and had joined the sheriff’s office in 1988. Eugene Bear Lincoln was charged in connection with the ambush; the case drew intense attention from the local Native American community and produced a contentious trial. In 1997 a jury found Lincoln not guilty of the murders of Deputy Davis and Peters, though he faced lesser weapons-related charges arising from the same incident.

Davis’s death is remembered by family, friends, and colleagues as a loss of a decorated veteran and dedicated officer. If anyone has memories of Deputy Davis, the stakeout that night, or information relevant to the case, please share what is known.