A Little Rock man who was set for trial Wednesday admitted a day earlier that in 2013, when he was 17, he shot his uncle multiple times in the torso, seriously wounding him, during an argument at the Acme Motel.
Pulaski County Circuit Judge Herb Wright Jr. accepted the guilty plea from Brandon Deangelo Davis, now 20, to a first-degree domestic battery charge, and sentenced him to 20 years in the state Department of Correction. The sentence will be served concurrently with an 11-year sentence Davis is serving after his Aug. 5 conviction in a carjacking that occurred two weeks before the shooting.
Davis had also been charged as an accomplice with first-degree murder and two counts of first-degree battery in a January 2013 shooting that killed a 17-year-old girl, Jasmine Simone Young, and wounded two others who were with her in a parked car. Davis admitted driving others to a convenience store where the shooting occurred, but prosecutors dropped the charges against him in August.
In the case involving his uncle, Davis admitted shooting Henderson Sessions, then 37, on May 12, 2013, after Sessions’ girlfriend dropped him off at the motel at 3301 W. Roosevelt Road. Little Rock police said Sessions spotted Davis, who Sessions thought was still in jail, and chastised him for being there after family members had put up money to bail him out of jail.
Witnesses reported that when Sessions looked away momentarily, Davis got out a gun and began shooting, striking his uncle several times in the arms, chest and back, even after Sessions fell to the ground.
Sessions was in critical condition that night and underwent emergency surgery at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences but survived.