Dashaun Isaiah Davis was 23 when he was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds inside a car on the 200 block of Union Street in York, Pennsylvania, on the evening of July 19, 2014. The York County Coroner’s Office confirmed he died at the scene.
Investigators tied the killing to a string of attempted home-invasion robberies earlier that night. Authorities say a group seeking money to leave town targeted someone they knew. Jeffrey A. Reid, 27, an acquaintance of Davis, allegedly lured Davis to the location under false pretenses. Prosecutors say Naquan Kiyauntr Coakley, 22, ambushed Davis, attempted to rob him at gunpoint, and after Davis reportedly called out Reid’s street name Sincere, Reid told Coakley to finish him; Coakley then fired multiple times.
Reid was arrested in Richmond, Virginia, and extradited to Pennsylvania. Court filings show Reid, Coakley, Reid’s girlfriend Shonique Smith-Hanna, and Coakley’s younger brother Malik Cortray Williams were charged with criminal homicide and conspiracy; Karina DeJesus was charged with hindering apprehension. Malik Williams cooperated with prosecutors. In March 2016 a jury found Reid guilty of first-degree murder and related counts and he was sentenced to life without parole.
Did anyone in York at the time have information about Davis’s movements that night or about the attempted robberies leading up to his murder?