Jimmy Davis was sentenced to death by the State of Alabama for a murder committed during a robbery
According to court documents Jimmy Davis would rob a gas station where he would fatally shoot the operator
Jimmy Davis would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
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Jimmy Davis Case
“At approximately 7:16 p.m. on the evening of March 17, 1993, Anniston, Alabama, Police Department Officer Brian Tumlin was dispatched to the Direct Oil gasoline station at the corner of 20th and Noble Streets in Anniston, Calhoun County, Alabama, in response to a report of a shooting inside the small service station building. The officer observed Dewey Waites kneeling over the victim, Johnny Hazel [sic]. He also noted three empty shell casings from spent bullets a short distance outside the service station door.
“The report dispatched to Officer Tumlin stated two black males were seen running west on 20th Street after shots were fired. One was reported wearing a black coat and/or a tan coat.
“Sgt. Rocky Stemen of the Anniston Police Department arrived to assist Officer Tumlin and placed three possible witnesses in patrol cars. Johnny Hazel was a 50 year old white male who had worked at the 18th and Noble Street Direct Oil Station as assistant manager for five or six years. He would often be visited by his friend Dewey Waites at the station where Hazel often worked alone. Waites testified that a black male with his face covered walked up to the station doorway at approximately 7:15 p.m., said ‘Give me your money,’ and then fired two shots from a silver or chrome plated automatic pistol at Johnny Hazel. Hazel slumped, then stepped to the phone and began calling the police, but he passed out and fell to the floor. Waites slammed the door shut, locked it and Waites then completed the call to the police. Anniston Rescue Squad personnel treated Hazel at the scene and then transported him to Northeast Alabama Regional Medical Center․
“Dr. Kenneth Elliott Warner, a State Medical Examiner, conducted an autopsy on Johnny Hazel. That examination revealed a gun shot wound to the right chest, as well as another to the left side of the back. Both projectiles passed through Hazel’s liver. Two metal projectiles were found, cleaned, sealed, and delivered to David Higgins in Birmingham. Dr. Warner opined that Johnny Hazel died as the result of multiple gun shots.
“Carla Lovell, a neighbor who resided on West 20th Street, heard gunshots on the night of March 17, 1993, and ran to her front porch and saw two men running to the west and called 911. She described the men as two black males with one of the males wearing a tan jacket with a bandanna around his head. She then went to the Direct Oil Station and later talked with the police. She thought the two were between 18 and 25 years of age. Mrs. Lovell’s mother-in-law, Betty Lovell, was in a house near her daughter-in-law. She heard two or three shots fired at or near the Direct Oil Service Station. She then saw two black males run around the corner of the station. She observed one of the males wore a light tan coat and that one wore either a bandanna or a hat turned backwards․ Betty Lovell testified that the two ran west on 20th Street past the Gurnee Avenue intersection and then turned south in the alley way in the next block past Gurnee. She went to the station and observed Mr. Dewey Waites and Mr. Hazel locked in the station. She was also later questioned by the police officers on the scene.
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“Terrance Phillips, a 16-year-old black male, was charged in connection with the robbery and killing of Johnny Hazel. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit robbery of the Direct Oil and received a ten-year sentence. At the time of this trial, he testified he had been released on bond and had applied for probation. On March 17, 1993, Phillips attended high school and around 5:00 p.m., met the defendant, Jimmy Davis, and his cousin, Alphonso Phillips, at the Carver Recreation Center. The three males left Carver Center and walked to the Direct Oil Station at 20th and Noble Streets. He testified that Jimmy Davis possessed a chrome .25 caliber Raven [brand] pistol with a white handle. Davis stated ‘We’re going to hit Direct Gas Station’ or ‘We’re going to rob Direct Gas Station.’ Plans were discussed in the alley west of Gurnee Avenue. Phillips testified that Davis stated that ‘he had the gun and he was going to draw down on the man.’ Davis would point the gun at the station operator while Alphonso Phillips was to get the cash money. Terrance Phillips was to serve as a look-out. Terrance crossed the intersection of 20th and Noble Street to the North and proceeded up Noble Street as Alphonso Phillips and Jimmy Davis turned South on to the Direct Oil property. Terrance Phillips testified that he abandoned the criminal enterprise and continued walking north toward his house. After about a block’s walk he stated that he heard two or three gunshots; he continued walking to his house at 2307 Moore Avenue. He later left and walked to his grandmother’s home at 1711 Moore Avenue. There he encountered Jimmy Davis and Alphonso Phillips.
“Terrance Phillips stated [that] he asked Davis what had happened and that Davis said he told the attendant (Hazel) ‘Give it up, fuck-nigger’ and that the attendant smiled or laughed. He (Davis) shot him at least twice and then he (Davis) took off. Terrance Phillips testified that on that night he wore a black coat with a Los Angles Kings emblem on the back; that Alphonso Phillips wore a blue jeans jacket and that Jimmy Davis wore a pair of black cut-off jean shorts and a dark green shirt with a hood on it.” 1
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