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The 1992 Murder of Edward Davis is Solved, Thanks to a Nickname
Friday, November 6, 2009 at 8:00 am
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| Calvin "Hook" McWilliams was recently picked-up for the 1992 murder of Edward Davis |
On May 22, 1992, a man knocked on the door of Davis' Detroit home while he was eating dinner with his family. The man demanded that Davis give him money. Davis refused. As Davis tried to close the door, the man reached through a tear in the screen door and shot him dead. He was 20-years-old at the time...
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| Edward Davis (left) was 20-years-old when he was killed |
It was only after the funeral that Davis's girlfriend realized she was pregnant. She named her son Edward Davis Jr. -- in honor of his deceased father. He is now a junior in high school. And until last week, he had no idea who was responsible for his father's murder.
Detroit Police Department's cold-case unit recently revisited the shooting. At the time of Davis's death, law enforcement only knew that Davis' killer went by the name of "Hook." It wasn't enough to close the case then. But much has changed.
Since the day Davis was killed, Calvin McWilliams has been in and out of jails and prisons around Michigan. He served 10-years between 1997 and 2007 on a drug conviction. Thanks to computer databases that now track aliases, investigators were quickly able to link McWilliams to his "Hook" nickname -- and Davis' death. When questioned about the murder, McWilliams admitted to being at Davis' house the day of his death. Last week, he was finally arraigned on murder charges -- more than 17 years after the shooting.
Tags: Michigan
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