3-week-old boy’s mother speaks about infant’s harrowing kidnap: FOX eight reports
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When detectives arrived Sunday (Dec. Legal) to comeback her kidnapped three-week-old son, Marshelle Davis told FOX eight WVUE that she "couldn’t even response their questions" — she felt so perplexed to have her son back. Her infant son, Kingston Davis, had been missing for almost forty eight hours after authorities say his 24-year-old biological father, Cameron Davis, took him at gunpoint, threatened to kill the infant and said he would comeback the child only if the mother dropped pending domestic violence charges against him.
The incident stems from a visit that Cameron Davis made on Friday to the home of the child’s mother. At some point during the visit, an quarrel took place inbetween Cameron and Marshelle Davis. Soon thereafter, Davis took the infant and left the home for a brief time, the sheriff’s office reported. Then, he returned with a handgun.
Speaking with FOX eight WVUE during a televised interview Sunday, Marshelle Davis related the harrowing moments when Cameron Davis’s visit to her Marrero home to see their infant son on Friday turned violent. Marshelle Davis described how Cameron Davis "screamed through" her bathroom door and, once opened, came in with his gun drawn.
"I’m going to just take the baby," Marshelle Davis said the boy’s father had told her. "I’m going to take the baby."
At that point, Marshelle Davis said she called 911. What unfolded next unnerved her.
"Gun in the right mitt, and Kingston in his left mitt," she told FOX eight WVUE.
Other family members in the house attempted to intervene, but to no avail. Marshelle Davis said Cameron Davis shoved aside her 6-year-old nephew, and put a gun to her pregnant sister’s head. Cameron Davis then left in a car that someone else was driving, taking the baby but without any food, diapers or a car seat.
"He threatened to shoot (the baby)," Marshelle Davis told FOX eight WVUE. "Then he said if the police come get him, he was just going to hold Kingston up as a target. And him and Kingston was going to die together."
According to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, Cameron Davis allegedly made such threats to compel Marshelle Davis to drop a previous domestic violence charge against him. Davis made reference to the earlier domestic violence quarrel just prior to making the threat, the sheriff’s office reported in a news release issued Saturday night.
For more than twenty four hours, Cameron Davis and the infant were missing. Authorities in Jefferson Parish implored the public’s assistance in locating them.
Cameron Davis’ aunt ultimately turned the newborn in to detectives, Marshelle Davis told FOX eight WVUE. The sheriff’s office issued a news release just before five p.m. Sunday announcing that the baby, Kingston Davis, was located in good condition and had been reunited with his mother.
However she’s overjoyed, Marshelle Davis told FOX eight WVUE that she still fears for the lives of her and her baby as Cameron Davis remains missing. The sheriff’s office has issued a warrant for his arrest, and Marshelle Davis told investigators that he had contacted his mother in Texas and purchased a bus ticket to Houston.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Davis is asked to contact Detective Judd Harris or Lt. Curtis Matthews at 504-364-5300 or CRIMESTOPPERS.