Roderick Davie was executed by the State of Ohio for two murders during a workplace shooting
According to court documents Roderick Davie had been fired months before from a pet food warehouse when he returned with a gun. Davie would open fire striking three people killing two: John Coleman, 38, and Tracey Jefferys, 21.
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Roderick Davie would be executed by lethal injection on August 10 2010
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Family members of Roderick Davie’s two victims sat quietly together as they watched the state of Ohio execute him Tuesday morning.
Davie, 38, was convicted of killing a man and a woman at his former workplace in Trumbull County in 1991. Another man Davie shot three times during the attack lived and was among the witnesses at the execution.
Davie, strapped to a bed inside the “death house” at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, turned his head toward the witnesses and apologized to the family members and the survivor of the attack in his final statement. He also thanked his parents, adult daughter and niece for their love and support.
After his statement, Davie’s body lay still on the bed as the lethal injection ran through his veins. He turned his head to look at the witnesses a last time and closed his eyes before the warden pronounced him dead at 10:31 a.m. He was the seventh Ohio death row inmate executed this year and the 40th since 1999.
The witnesses were generally quiet and calm as they watched the execution up close from behind a glass divider. They declined to speak with the media afterward.
On the morning of June 27, 1991, Davie went to his former workplace, Veterinary Companies of America in Warren, armed with a revolver, and ordered three workers to lie face down on the floor. He had been fired from the company in April of that year. Davie shot John Coleman, 38, who died almost immediately, and William John Everett, who remained conscious after being shot in the head, shoulder and left arm.
Davie then pursued Tracey Jefferys, 21, when she got up and ran toward the company’s lunch room. He found her and beat her to death with a folding chair, according to Davie’s clemency report last month.
When police arrested Davie later that day, he told detectives, “I just flipped out this morning. I went down to the VCA and shot ’em up.”
Davie was friendly with Everett and Jefferys while he worked at the company, a distributor of pet and veterinary supplies. He even had a cordial conversation with Everett when he ran into him at a restaurant a week earlier. Coleman, on the other hand, was a stranger to Davie.
Davie apologized to Everett and the families of Coleman and Jefferys before his execution. His entire final statement was, “I’d like to thank my parents for their unconditional love and support throughout all this. My daughter, Paris, for helping me become a man and change. And my niece, Brittany, for holding my heart.
“To Ms. Jefferys, I’m sorry. I don’t know if it means anything, Ms. Jefferys, but from the bottom of my heart, I mean that. I’m sorry.
“To the Colemans – Cathy, I don’t see her here, but you all tell Cathy I’m sorry. I mean that.
“John (Everett), I hope you can let it go, man and forgive me. You hear me, John? I’m done. That’s it.”
Randy and Benny Coleman, brothers of John Coleman, sat next to each other during the execution. Randy held a dated picture of three men — who appeared to be the three brothers — posing outside in a neighborhood.
Everett sat beside Randy Coleman and shook his hand after a curtain was pulled across the window while medical staff checked Davie’s vital signs about eight minutes after he let out his last visible breath.
In front of the Coleman brothers and Everett sat Jefferys’ mother, Sandra Richmond, and her husband, Kenny Richmond. At Davie’s clemency hearing last month, Sandra Richmond showed a picture of her daughter taken four months before the murder. She said her daughter was a friendly person who would buy Davie lunch and loan him her car. Richmond told the clemency board she wanted justice for her daughter’s murder
https://www.cleveland.com/open/2010/08/ohio_executes_man_for_1991_tru.html
