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| Shaniya Davis (5 years old) |
A judge has cleared the way for prosecutors to seek the death penalty against the man accused of raping and killing 5-year-old Shaniya Davis in 2009. Superior Court Judge Jim Ammons made the ruling this afternoon. Mario Andrette McNeil, 31, is one of two people charged in the girl's death. The other is her mother, Antoniette Davis, 27. McNeil is charged with first-degree rape, first-degree kidnapping and first-degree murder. Antoniette Davis is charged with first-degree murder, rape of a child and human trafficking.
District Attorney Billy West told the court today that prosecutors did not plan to seek the death penalty against Antoniette Davis. Shaniya was killed and her body was dumped along a roadside in Harnett County in 2009. Shaniya was reported missing Nov. 10, 2009, by her mother, who was living in the Sleepy Hollow Mobile Home Park off Murchison Road.
A few days later, police discovered surveillance video from a hotel in Sanford that showed a man holding Shaniya in his arms while waiting for an elevator. Police later identified the man as McNeil, who turned himself in to police Nov. 13 after the video was released. McNeil admitted to kidnapping the child, police said. Shaniya's body was found Nov. 16 off Walker Road, which is off N.C. 87 near the Carolina Trace community.
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| Antoniette Davis (mother) / Mario Andrette McNeil (asshole) |
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