Bianca Davis

How they died

Deadly force

Bianca Davis was shot and killed after police sprayed mace into a crowd after reports of a fight--police said officers fired no shots; two witnesses filed reports stating that police did fire shots, including one witness who said he saw an officer shoot Davis by mistake. The fight broke out at a party held at The Casino Lounge on Main Highway. After officers on the scene sprayed mace into the crowd, "the first shots rang out," St. Martinville Police Chief Calder Hebert said. Herbert denied that any of his officers fired shots during the gunfire that left former Ragin' Cajuns basketball star Bianca Davis dead. The next day, two people filed reports saying that an officer fired shots. A security guard at the lounge, Dequincy Lewis, said that he saw a St. Martinville police officer fire the shot that hit Davis. "He wasn't aiming to shoot at anybody," Lewis said Monday. "(He came) around the corner shooting wildly thinking he was shooting at the people shooting at that truck, but he made a mistake and hit that girl." Police arrested twin brothers in connection with Davis's shooting; Herbert said they didn't have any physical evidence linking Jakil or Jamir Sophus, but relied on witness statements to connect the brothers to Davis' death.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Bianca Davis, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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