Shania Nicole Davis was born June 14 2004 in Fayetteville North Carolina to parents Bradley Lockhart and Antoinette Davis Shania was a happy loving and friendly little girl who was described as a good little helper around the house she loved to play dress up and play with her Barbie dolls but also loved the outdoors and riding her scooter pink and yellow were her favorite colors around the time of our story she was a kindergarten student at Morganton Road Elementary School Bradley had raised Shania with the help of his sister
Carrie Lockhart Davis this was until 2009 when he agreed to let Shania stay with her mother because he felt that Antoinette was ready to be a mom again after overcoming financial problems according to Bradley quote she had asked if she could be a mother and I felt she was sincere in asking and I figured to give her a chance end quote however shania’s Aunt Carrie felt differently fact Carrie never got along with Antoinette because she felt that the mother neglected her kids in September 2009 five-year-old Shania
moved in with her mother and her seven-year-old brother Carl the family lived in a trailer at the Sleepy Hollow trailer park that was rented by Antoinette’s sister Brenda Davis the accommodations were cramped Brenda her boyfriend Geroy Smith and their children stayed in the back bedroom while Antoinette and her children stayed in the front room of the trailer Brenda had previously dated a man named Mario andrett McNeil who went by the name mono now Mana had given Brenda money to use as a security deposit to move into her
trailer at Sleepy Hollow while they were together he spent a lot of time in the trailer he was familiar with Antoinette and her children he also knew how to get inside even if the door was locked at the time of our story mono lived with a woman named April Autry who was the mother of his 18 month old daughter you lived with her on Washington Drive In Fayetteville this was roughly a seven minute drive south of the Sleepy Hollow trailer park despite living with the mother of his child mono still was talking with other
women on the evening of November 9th and continuing into the early morning hours of November 10th Mana was having a one-man party after using Coke and taking a couple shots of liquor he began in his words texting all the females in his phone he tried to text Brenda but her phone was turned off so he moved on to another woman Tyson McLean taisa who also lived at the Sleepy Hollow trailer park began exchanging text messages with mono and agreed to invite him over to hook up however by the time he got there at 2 52
a.m taisa had fallen asleep and she didn’t answer the door by 306 am mono texted her good night and a minute later he resumed trying to get in contact with Brenda at around 5 30 a.m Brenda woke up because she thought she heard the door open she mentioned this to Joy but neither went to check on what it was they went back to sleep but were awoke and a half an hour later by Antoinette who came into the room and asked if they had seen Shania they said they hadn’t Antoinette went outside to search for her daughter
while Antoinette was outside Carl told Brenda and jeroy that mono had been there the previous night Geroy asked Carl if he was sure about this and he responded yeah Brenda texted and called Mono but he did not answer his phone Droid then called April Autry who told him that mono was not with her Antoinette returned to the trailer and reported that she had knocked on all of the doors in Sleepy Hollow but no one had seen Shania Brenda told Antoinette to call the police but Antoinette was hesitant to do so Brenda
and Troy went outside and noticed that the stairs and railings of the trailer contained feces they had not been there the night before there was also what appeared to be a legible yellow writing scribbled within the feces on the railing shortly after 6 a.m that same morning mono arrived at the Comfort Inn and Suites in Sanford North Carolina about an hour north of Fayetteville he entered the hotel alone provided identification and checked into room 201 under his own name there was video footage of the transaction because
cameras operated continually throughout the hotel mono told the desk clerk Jacqueline Lee that he was traveling with his daughter to take her to her mother in Virginia footage from hotel security cameras showed that after checking in mono returned to his vehicle in the back of the parking lot approximately 7 16 am where he remained for several minutes before coming back into the hotel carrying a child covered up with a blue blanket Jacqueline observed mono carrying the child on the video feed and noticed the texture of her hair which Lee recalled
when she saw an amber alert that was issued for Shania additionally Seth Chambers was staying at the hotel during a business trip passed mono in the hallway near room 201 at 6 24 am and saw him carrying a child at the hotel’s morning shift change Regina bakani replaced Jacqueline at the front desk during the shift change motto came to the breakfast area alone got a banana some juice and a muffin and took them back to his room Jacqueline pointed him out to Regina and told her about the recent check-in hotel cameras showed mono walking towards the
breakfast area at 6 36 a.m and returning down the hall and into his room with food and drink in his hands back at Sleepy Hollow Antoinette called the police at 6 52 a.m at the urging of Brenda I don’t know what’s going on but she’s not here how old is your daughter and you’re doing what you’re telling me was not a lot but I’m telling you she knows how to earn like I’m hoping that she didn’t unlock it and walk out about 10 minutes after Antoinette’s phone call the police arrived began searching for Shania with search dogs and started
interviewing people Fayetteville Police Officer Elizabeth Culver observed a substance that was later determined to be feces on both railings of the front porch the substance was smooth like something had been poured on it and Antoinette had a cooking pot in her hand when officer Culver arrived apparently Antoinette had poured water on the railings the trash can of unit 1119 police found a blanket that Antoinette identified as hers and that droy recognized as having been in the living room of the trailer recently
the blanket was a thick child’s comforter type blanket and it had feces on it Jennifer slish a forensic technician for the Fayetteville Police Department at the time took the blanket into evidence to be processed officer Culver spoke with Antoinette Brenda Geroy and Carl at the scene Carl seemed very distracted and would look at his aunt before responding he said he remembered Shania coming to bed but did not remember her leaving the bedroom later in our story Carl admitted that he had seen mono at the trailer that
morning because Antoinette and Brenda were consistently looking at their phones and texting officer Culver had difficulty getting them to focus on the questions being asked so her Lieutenant agreed to take them downtown to be interviewed officer Culver and her partner Daniel Suggs went to the main office of the trailer park to view the security video footage to look for a child roaming around the trailer park or for vehicles coming into the area at approximately 7 34 am the video cameras at the Comfort Inn and Suites
showed mono leaving room 201 and going to the elevator with a child at 7 35 the video shows him exiting the side door of the hotel and walking down the sidewalk still carrying the little girl Matthew Argyle the hotel’s maintenance worker at the time appeared on the video one minute later he was outside the side door picking up cigarette butts and trash when he saw mono come out with a little girl on his shoulder he had her covered and Matthew believed that she was asleep he said hello mono made eye contact with
him before looking away without saying anything in response he just continued walking toward the parking lot Matthew noticed something was amiss and he thus tried to observe mono without making it obvious that he was doing so mono put the child in the right rear passenger side of his car got into the driver’s seat and began smoking Matthew continued to watch the man while acting like he was doing busy work because he just felt something was not right mono then drove to the Pavilion at the front entrance and entered the hotel
he approached the front desk and asked Regina for his security deposit stating that he had to get back on the road to drive his daughter to Virginia to meet her mother security cameras showed Regina giving mono the cash receipt to sign and return the deposit the housekeeper who later cleaned room 201 brought Regina one or two small clear open plastic packets with white residue that she had found in the room which she believed to be Coke meanwhile Matthew watched mono leave the hotel drive away in his car and turn
left onto the main road Matthew did not act on his feeling that something was wrong until the following day when Hotel staff saw an amber alert and called law enforcement the hotel security cameras showed mono leaving the front entrance and getting into his car at 7 40. after which the car turned left towards Highway 87.
phone records indicated that at approximately 7 49 that same morning mono sent a text saying Hey to Brenda who was at the police station at the time she had texted mono the same message at 6 53 after learning from Carl that he had been in the trailer the previous night at approximately 8 22 cell phone tower ping showed mono’s phone to be near the intersection of Highway 87 Highway 24 and Highway 27 in an area known as Johnsonville and barbecue between 8 33 and 9 48 am Brenda and mono exchanged a series of text
messages which we’ll have on screen for you right now regarding why he was at her trailer which mono denied it ended with Brenda telling him not to text her anymore and mono asking her why her boyfriend was messaging the mother of his child Brenda did not tell law enforcement she was text messaging mono while she was at the station because she didn’t want to assume anything at that point for the same reason she did not immediately tell police what Carl had said about seeing mono in the trailer Regina bakani finished her shift at the
Comfort Inn and Suites at 3 P.M and reported back for the 7 A.M shift change the following day she and co-worker Jacqueline Lee then noticed an amber alert on the hotel’s computer screen Jacqueline thought the picture on the screen was that of the same child that she observed with the suspicious man the previous morning and so she called the Amber Alert hotline forensic technician Jennifer slish responded to the Colin processed room 201 for evidence the hotel manager advised her that the betting had not been changed but the trash had been
taken out and a towel had been removed before staff became aware of the situation two comforters from the beds in room 201 were among the evidence that she collected Fayetteville Police Department Captain Charles Kimball was responsible for the logistics of trying to find Shania based on the video from the hotel police believe mono had been with shinai and that she was still alive after obtaining mono’s cell phone number from his mother the police gave the number to FBI special agent Frank brostrom who began an analysis of his
phone agent brostrom testified that the national Center for missing exploited children had already notified the FBI about the case corn agent brostrom when the FBI receives a notification of a missing child agents immediately contact local law enforcement to offer assistance brostrom contacted Sergeant Chris corcion of the Fayetteville Police Department who quickly invited brostrom to come and help with the search for Shania agent brostrom arrived at Sleepy Hollow on the afternoon of November 10th mono’s cell phone data was analyzed by special
agent Michael Sutton of the FBI cellular analysis survey team when special agents Sun received the electronic information from mono’s cell phone he performed an initial analysis created some rough draft Maps provided agent brostrom with an initial search area in the highway 87 area along Highway 27.
following the FBI’s recommendation police began searching for Shania in the area around Highway 87 from Spring Lake towards Sanford having received offers of assistance from volunteers and different law enforcement agencies investigators mobilized a huge search and rescue effort after the hotel video showing mono with a child came to light Brenda Davis and jeroy Smith told police that Carl had seen him at the trailer the night Shania disappeared Brenda had also seen mono try to talk to Antoinette at their aunt’s house to which Antoinette
responded quote I don’t have [ __ ] to say to you I just want to know where my mother effing baby’s at end quote allegedly mono said all right jumped in his car and sped away Brenda began to think Antoinette was lying about what she knew and Brenda and Antoinette argued and did not speak after this in the evening hours of November 12th Brenda talked to the detectives once again told them about the text messages with mono and ultimately gave them her phone to take photos of these texts that same day police found mono and he
agreed to come to the station to speak with them police also located his Mitsubishi Galant which was backed into a space of the Mount Sinai Apartments away from his residence on Washington Drive police did a search of the vehicle’s trunk and then had the car towed the police department the car was then processed for forensic evidence which included taking soil samples from the wheel wells and taking the brake and gas pedal covers for substance analysis beginning at around 9 30 p.
m on the evening of November 12th several Law Enforcement Officers interviewed mono in an effort to find Shania although Shania had been missing for two days officers were still hopeful of finding her alive the officers did not handcuff mono or place him under arrest and they specifically informed him that the door to the interview room was unlocked and they was free to leave the room he also had his cell phone on which he continued to receive messages and used during breaks in this interview mono admitted he was at Sleepy Hollow
just after midnight on November 10th driving around in the black Mitsubishi but at first he denied going to Brenda’s trailer denied seeing Shania or even knowing who she was he denied having her in the vehicle and denied leaving the city limits or being in Sanford at a hotel when police showed a photograph of himself at the hotel mono initially denied that it was him when confronted with the information that the same person signed into the hotel as Mario McNeil showing his identification and listing his home address
mono suggested that maybe he had lost his ID Mano then admitted that he had been at the hotel with Shania about 54 minutes into the interview mono began telling a story about receiving a text message which he thought came from Brenda’s phone telling him to come to Sleepy Hollow to pick Shania up on the porch he said he got Shania and took her to the hotel room where he ingested Coke according to Mono while he was at the hotel he got a call or text message from some unknown people asking him to bring Shania to a dry cleaning establishment
at the corner of Country Club Drive and Ramsey Street mono say that he delivered Shania to these unnamed people and that they were driving a gray Nissan Maxima Asian brostrom testified that the focus of the interview changed when mono suddenly stated he was waiting to get a call to come and kill her the interviewing officers tried to get him to expand on the statement but he would not the exchanges on mono’s phone with Brenda did not pertain to picking up someone waiting on the porch as mono claimed during the interview rather they
were of the argument we highlighted earlier in the episode there were no calls or text messages to mono’s phone from any Unknown People the only messages during this time period were between mono and Brenda’s phones at the end of the interview mono was arrested for the kidnapping of Shania when police later viewed the videotape of the interview they saw that when they left mono alone in the interview room during a break that he made the sign of a cross took out a key and got down on the floor and put the key into a wall
electrical socket and appeared to receive a jolt mono then took off his shoes and put the key back in the electrical socket again meanwhile police became suspicious of Antoinette’s story after reviewing a timeline of the events leading up to shania’s disappearance and she refused to cooperate with the investigation she initially accused her boyfriend Clarence Co of kidnapping Shania police investigated Co but he was quickly let go after their surveillance footage from the Comfort Inn and Suites was brought to light
eventually the mother confessed something horrific to investigators she told them quote I gave her to him to cover two hundred dollars he was only supposed to have sex end quote Yes you heard that correctly mono previously lent ants win at 200 to buy food and pay for a hotel room when she and her children were homeless some reports indicated that the debt was drug related but that is incorrect In order to reimburse him for the debt she pimped out her five-year-old daughter to add insult to injury Antoinette was
pregnant again she was arrested and charged with human trafficking and later released on a 51 thousand dollar bail a massive search for Shania was continuing along Highway 87. on the memorial of November 13th Fayetteville Police Department investigator Kimball met with then district attorney Ed granis about several cases including this one the district attorney pulled him aside and told him that Alan Rogers a Fayetteville defense attorney might have some information that could help them in this case and that he would be calling
him attorney Rogers had accompanied mono at his first appearance in the morning following his arrest on kidnapping charges and it was investigator Kimball’s understanding that Alan Rogers was mono’s attorney the following day investigator Kimball received a telephone call from another attorney Coy Brewer he said the information Kimball needed was to look for green porta potties on Highway 87.
based on the information that he received earlier that Alan Rogers would be calling investigator Kimball assumed after receiving the call from Coy Brewer that he and attorney Rogers were working together on the case police did look for green porta potties along Highway 87 and saw numerous porta potties along the road investigator Kimball told D.
A Grannis that the information that he had received from attorney Brewer was vague and he suggested that he talked to attorney Rogers on November 15th investigator Kimball called Allen Rogers and told him that the information he had received from Coy Brewer was somewhat vague Roger said he was traveling and would talk to his client when he returned to town he later followed up with investigator Kimball and said police needed to look for where they killed deer on Highway 87 between Spring Lake and Sanford according to Kimball attorney Rogers
stated in a subsequent phone call let me talk to my guy and then later called back to say they need to look in an area where Hunters feel dressed dear after they killed them Kimball called Alan Rogers once more to see if there were additional details an attorney Rogers told him that’s all my guy remembers attorney Rogers would later contest in court that he never referred to Mono as my guy Searchers did not locate Shania that day and the search resumed the following morning a Sanford company training canine officers from the Virgin Islands
volunteered to assist in the search around 1 pm that day one of the officers from the Virgin Islands and his training dog found shania’s body lying partially under a log in an area with deer carcasses near the intersection of Highway 87 and Walker Road she was only wearing an adult-sized black sweatshirt and underwear when her body was found on November 19 2009 mono was charged with first degree homicide all right I’ll call him we got a tip somebody in the parking lot said that they had heard on the news or something that they’d uh the guy
admitted to killing the young child and dumping her where there was deer carcasses and trash we remember driving through here earlier and smelling something pretty nasty so we came back to check it and sure enough there were deer carcasses and trash and then some of the officers from the Virgin Islands went through here and actually saw her in there and the dogs were showing a lot of interest so we checked it out and confirmed and yet it’s terrible it’s not good news at all it’s terrible um I don’t even know I’m a little
overwhelmed right now so it’s just it’s a lot I’m just you know I’m glad glad we’re able to help in 2010 it was announced that explicit images of a young girl were found on mono’s phone by Fayetteville police detective Jason sondergaard detective saundergard consulted with a physician who specializes in forensic Pediatrics to determine the age of the girl in the photos but she could only confirm that the photos were of a young black girl it is unclear whether the photos depicted Shania or not on July 5th 2011 a
Cumberland County grand jury indicted him for the following offenses first degree homicide first degree kidnapping and several offenses related to the CA and sa of Shania monophiled various pre-trial motions including to prevent the state from seeking the death penalty pursuant to the North Carolina racial Justice Act he also motioned to suppress all statements he made to officers during his interview and claim that in exchange for information regarding the location of shania’s body the state had agreed not to seek the death penalty
all of his motions were thrown out it was found that there was no such agreement mono and potential imano’s lawyer completely misunderstood the situation on July 6 2011 Antoinette Davis was rearrested and charged with first-degree homicide in addition to the charges she had already stacked up she was denied Bond on the homicide charge and bonds totaling 1.
5 million dollars were set for all other charges on April 8 2013 Mana was offered a deal to plead guilty to first-degree homicide with a sentence of life imprisonment without parole in lieu of a possible death sentence after considering the deal mono opted to turn it down and proceed to trial at trial deputy chief medical examiner Thomas Clark testified that he conducted the autopsy on Shania Davis on November 17 2009.
the autopsy identified a small bruise on the left side of shania’s face injuries to her private area and two abrasions on her upper thighs Dr Clark testified that abrasions are a scraping type of injury in which part or all of the outer layer of skin is removed by a blunt object and that two linear abrasions at the upper part of shania’s inner thighs match the band of the underwear that she was wearing Dr Clark noted injuries consistent with essay and also collected several hairs that were found during external
examination shania’s lungs showed edema chronic bronchitis and focal intra-alveolar hemorrhage Dr Clark concluded that the most likely cause of death was external Airway obstruction or asphyxiation blood hairs and other bodily fluids were found on the swabs of shania’s body her clothing the blanket that was located in the garbage and the bedding at the Comfort Inn and Suites DNA analysis linked these samples to both mono and Shania soil samples from the roadside near where shania’s body was found as well as from the body recovery site and from the
gas pedal of mono’s Mitsubishi Galan all contain the same Garnet soil compound in addition mono cell phone records placed him at the scene of the crime on May 23 2013 a jury found Mario mono and Dre McNeil guilty of first degree homicide based on malice premeditation and deliberation the jury also found him guilty of all other remaining charges except for the essay of a child by an adult offender charge the trial court then held Capital sentencing proceedings during which shania’s father and half-sister testified as impact Witnesses
shania’s father Bradley Lockhart testified that he had met shania’s mother at a party and had been in a brief relationship with her and had learned that Antoinette was pregnant only shortly before shania’s birth for a little less than two years after shania’s birth she lived with Antoinette and her family Bradley had frequent contact with Shania and would pick her up every weekend for visits towards the end of 2006 or the beginning of 2007 Bradley bought a fairly large house in Fayetteville and Shania moved in with him and his four
other children Shania had frequent contact with her mother during this time she was very close with her father and the other children the father shared that she enjoyed playing dress-up and prancing around the house in her plastic heels but was also a little bit of a tomboy and liked to play basketball with her little brother and ride her little scooter Shania considered herself a singer and wanted to join the children’s choir at the church they attended Shania moved back to be with her mother in October of 2009.
even when he was out of town for work Bradley talked to Shania on the phone four to five times a week he testified that shania’s death was one of the hardest things he had ever experienced it tears him up every day and that he still finds it hard to sleep even after three and a half years he said he suffered two collapsed lungs from the stress he finds it hard to stay focused and function and questions if he could have done anything differently Cheyenne Lockhart shania’s 21 year old half-sister described her as her little
mini me who followed her around everywhere shared that Shania was bubbly and loved to tell jokes she was caring and would always tell them that she loved them shania’s death was very painful to the young woman and Cheyenne thought about her every day on May 29 2013 the jury returned a binding recommendation that mono be sentenced to death the trial court sentenced him to death for first degree homicide into consecutive sentences of 705 to 886 months for all other charges mono immediately filed an appeal on October 18 2013 Antoinette Davis
entered Alfred please to second-degree homicide human trafficking first degree kidnapping and several other charges related to the CA and essay of her daughter she was sentenced to between 210 and 261 months in prison will be eligible for parole in 2027. as part of a plea agreement the first degree essay charge was dismissed and Alfred plea allows the defendant to plead guilty while maintaining his or her innocence because there is sufficient evidence to find him or her guilty at her trial she apologized to shania’s Father Bradley Lockhart
she said quote I want to say I did the best I could with my children I never said I was a perfect mother but I was a good mother I did what I had to to provide for them I did what I had to to make sure they were all right I didn’t have help from anybody end quote Superior Court Judge Jim Ammons tersely disagreed he told Antoinette quote you could have saved your daughter’s life and you did not you had the time the opportunity and the means to save shania’s life and you did not you are not a good mother this did not have to
happen end quote judge Ammons ordered her to register as an offender for 30 years and suggested that she received psychological counseling while in prison in response Bradley stated that he still Grieves for his daughter but said he forgave Antoinette a long time ago and knows that Shania did as well he told her quote maybe you can take this time and dig deep within you and help others by sharing your story end quote shania’s calling hours were held on November 21st 2009 at Roger and Bree’s Funeral Home her funeral service was held the
following day at Mana church with Reverend Johnny C Davis officiating and was attended by over 1500 people another 500 people watched the service from an adjacent building while several hundred more who were unable to secure a seat waited outside touched by shania’s story basketball star Shaquille O’Neal offered to pay for her funeral he stated quote what happened to her was tragic I wanted her to have a funeral that would be as beautiful as she was end quote Shaq learned about the little girl’s death after watching Nancy Grace quote I was
sitting at home watching it on the news and the story brought a tear to my eye end quote the service opened with light piano music and broadcast on a large television screen above her tiny pink coffin her photos of Shania playing in the snow showing off Christmas presents and celebrating her birthday her kindergarten class served as her honorary pallbearers she was laid to rest at Fayetteville Memorial Cemetery beneath a heart-shaped Granite gravestone that bore the inscription God’s angel called home a cruel twist of fate shania’s older
half -brother Chavez Lockhart who was also one of her pallbearers was found dead after being shot to death on May 25 2017. he was only 20 years old ultimately he was buried next to his little sister a family dealing with the unthinkable for a second time the loss of a child eight years after the body of five-year-old Shania Davis was found in Sanford her older half-brother was shot and killed deputies in Hope County say 20 year old Chavez Lockhart was shot Wednesday night and died at the hospital CBS North Carolina’s Amy Cutler has more
from Rayford it was around 9 30 Wednesday night when the Hoke County Sheriff’s Office was called to this trailer park off Mockingbird Road neighbors say they heard the gunshot when they came outside they saw a car off the road the driver had been shot that’s where they pulled him out at and then they pulled him up here but his car went off down there authorities rushed that young man to the hospital where he died they’ve identified him as 20 year old Chavez Lockhart the half-brother of Shania Davis authorities confirming they share
a father the five-year-old’s death made national headlines back in 2009 she was raped and murdered after her mother sold her to pay off a debt I’m sorry about that we came here to Fayetteville to the house where Lockhart lived family members too distraught to go on camera tell us he was a good guy with a lot of potential family members asking folks to keep them in their prayers as they grieve this second loss back in Rayford neighbors weren’t surprised they lost me in and out all the time authorities haven’t said why Lockhart was at that
trailer park but they’re asking anyone with information to give them a call it seems that tragedy has struck the Lockhart family multiple times Chavez’s mother 28 year old Vicki Sue Coleman Lockhart and her sister nineteen-year-old Chanel Coleman were killed in a home invasion that turned into a triple homicide along with David Lee Epps the sisters were bound gagged and shot to death in 1998.
in an interview with Oprah Bradley Lockhart said that he may speak with Antoinette one day but not now it’s a quote I just think that it’s best that we let the justice system take its course I try to keep my heart as pure as possible and I’m sure one day I will be able to sit down and talk to her and try to understand what was going through her mind end quote when asked what he’d like to see happen to Mono Bradley said the outcome is not up to him quote it’s in the Lord’s hands now and the Justice systems and he’s got to come to grips and repent for his actions
I know the grace of the Lord and if he’s sincere within his heart he will be able to move forward with his guilt end quote still Bradley hopes that shania’s story will help keep other children safe he said quote there’s so much to be said about that precious angel as you can see from the Outreach in just the vigils she’s definitely touched a lot of hearts and she’s dug deep inside a lot of people I just hope that they’ve taken some of this joy as she’s brought down to them some of this hurt and we can curb it from happening to
another child get something in place to where the system benefits those who need help and quit walking away from it end quote
