On March 29, 2025, Ray James Davis Jr., a Black/African American man, was found in a courtyard on West Chicago Avenue in Las Vegas with gunshot wounds. He was taken to University Medical Center and pronounced dead. Police responded after multiple reports of a shooting that Saturday night.

Investigators arrested his 47-year-old neighbor, Alexander Ayres. Ayres and Davis were acquaintances who often spent time together, but Ayres told detectives he had become convinced Davis was poisoning him with drugs and planned the attack. Ayres admitted to using marijuana, alcohol, and methamphetamine regularly and described delusions, including believing parasites were in his fingernails and hair. According to the confession, Ayres shot Davis through a front screen door and then opened it and fired several more times; he reportedly expressed no remorse.

Ayres was booked at the Clark County Detention Center and charged with open murder with use of a deadly weapon, two counts of being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm, and possession of a gun with an altered or removed serial number. Did anyone in the neighborhood know about tensions between them or see anything the night of the shooting?