An Atlantic City man already serving a 48-year sentence for running a drug-production facility faces 15 years after admitting to a 2019 shooting.
Kevin Davis, 38, pleaded guilty Tuesday to first-degree attempted murder and second-degree possession of a handgun for an unlawful purpose.
Davis shot a 54-year-old man in the stomach Sept. 13, 2019, in the 600 block of Green Street.
He then fled on a bicycle.
The Atlantic City Police Department's Violent Crimes Unit identified Davis after retrieving surveillance footage from numerous locations. By backtracking through the footage, police identified the home in Atlantic City that Davis entered after the shooting.
A warranted search of his home was conducted Oct. 3, 2019. At that time, police found the clothing Davis wore at the time of the shooting, along with a loaded handgun that was different than the one used in the shooting, along with a large amount of fentanyl and fentanyl-packaging paraphernalia.
Davis fled the scene, and was arrested 10 months later, after Detective Anthony Abrams received information that Davis was at a park in the 100 block of Melrose Avenue, police said at the time.
A jury convicted Davis in March on 15 counts, including first-degree maintaining a fentanyl-production facility, second-degree unlawful possession of a handgun in the furtherance of fentanyl production and distribution, possession of a handgun by a previously convicted person and resisting arrest by flight.
He was sentenced to 48 years in prison, and is currently in N.J. State Prison.
Davis also served a 10-year prison sentence in 2005, after admitting to another attempted murder, court records show.
Last May, he admitted to committing a home invasion in Absecon in October 2019 with
the same handgun that he used during the 2019 shooting. He was given a concurrent term of 10 years in New Jersey State Prison with 8½ years of parole ineligibility.
Davis’ two co-defendants on that case, Mark Toulson and Kalim Selby, pleaded guilty midtrial to armed robbery and each was sentenced to 10 years in New Jersey
State Prison with 8½ years of parole ineligibility.
Davis is expected to be sentenced in absentia in April. His attempted murder sentence
will run concurrent to his current sentences.
