On the evening of August 18, 1989, Davis briefly attended a pool
party hosted by a friend. As he left with his friend Darrell Collins,
the occupants of a passing car yelled obscenities at them. Michael Cooper, a passenger in the other car, was shot in the face, allegedly by Davis.Davis and Collins continued on, and later met Sylvester "Redd" Coles, who was arguing with a homeless man, Larry Young, over a beer. Off-duty policeman Mark MacPhail was working as a security guard at a Burger King restaurant in Savannah, Georgia.
MacPhail, age 27, the son of a U.S. Army colonel, was married with a 2-year old daughter and an infant son. He had joined the Savannah Police Department in 1986 following six years of military service as an army ranger. MacPhail had worked for three years as a regular patrol officer and in the summer of 1989 had applied to train as a mounted policeman.
At about 1:15 am, seeking to help Young who was being attacked in a nearby parking lot, MacPhail was killed. He had been shot twice, once through the heart and once in the face, without drawing his gun.
No physical evidence from the crime was retrieved, apart from the bullets and shell casings, which were determined to have come from a .38-caliber pistol. Witnesses to the shooting agreed that a man in a white shirt had struck Young and then shot MacPhail.
On
the evening of August 19, Redd Coles went to the police. He told them
that he had seen Davis with a .38-caliber gun, and that Davis had
assaulted Young. The same evening, Davis drove to Atlanta with his sister. In the early morning of August 20, 1989, the Savannah police, suspecting Davis and seeking a murder weapon, converged on the Davis home. Having sealed off the area, the police searched the house, and a pair of shorts belonging to Davis were found in a dryer and confiscated.
Police issued a reward for information leading to Davis' arrest. Davis' family began negotiating with police, motivated by concerns about his safety; local drug dealers were making death threats because the police dragnet seeking Davis had interrupted their business.
On August 23, 1989, Davis was driven back to Savannah by members of his family, where he surrendered to police, and he was charged with MacPhail's murder. Hundreds of mourners, including county, state and federal law enforcement officials, had attended MacPhail's funeral at Trinity Lutheran Church in Savannah the day before.
2 comments:
Brother DV:
I appreciate the "Michael Cooper" angle that you have presented. Most people gloss over the two crime scenes.
You are far too non-committal in your statements though.
With Coles and Davis having been together during the party where a Black man named Michael Cooper was shot in the face and THEN together again at the scene where the officer was shot and killed - it goes without saying that IF THESE WERE TWO WHITE MEN and there were two BLACK MEN who were shot - one survived and the other DEAD - the NAACP and the rest of the Civil Rights Pharisees would demand that BOTH OF THEM be locked up.
The COMPLICITY being evident by their PAIRING through both crime scenes.
I demand that SYLVESTER "RED" COLES BE LOCKED UP!!! And that Troy Davis receive his prescribed sentence.
TROY DAVIS IS NOT AN INNOCENT MAN. Officer McPhail - Married father of 2 who needed to work an extra job to pay the bills IS THE INNOCENT MAN.
He is now DEAD!!!
Bro DV:
Please provide the source of your narrative.
Peace.
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