Opinion ID: 1126715
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Heading: the sanchez murder on june 29, 1990

Text: On June 29, 1990, Percy Davis and a neighborhood acquaintance, Jerome Mitchell, as a passenger, in Davis's distinctive automobile, a Datsun 280 ZX with Percy written on each door and on the front license plate, cruised after midnight in Shreveport. During this time they bought and drank beer and Davis smoked cocaine that he had purchased, according to Mitchell. Before reaching the Circle K store where Sanchez was employed, Davis told Mitchell he needed some money. There, Davis removed and left in his car with Mitchell, distinctive jewelry he was wearing. Davis took his .25 pistol from the glove compartment of his car, telling Mitchell to wait for him. Davis departed the car to enter the store with the pistol tucked in the back of his trousers. Mitchell saw Davis walk toward the store and, after a brief delay, saw him return from the store to the car. Entering the car, Davis removed the pistol from the front of his trousers and returned it to the glove compartment. Once in the car, Davis displayed to Mitchell money Mitchell said Davis did not have before he entered the store, some of which thereafter was spent by Davis to purchase more crack cocaine before he drove to Mitchell's home, where Mitchell departed. While the armed robbery and murder of Sanchez was occurring, another employee of the Circle K store, Patricia Williams, drove and parked her car near the store, intending to deliver some store keys to Sanchez. From a distance, she saw a black male in his mid-20's, whom she could not otherwise then or later identify, holding a pistol and opening and looting the cash register. She quickly drove away to report the incident to police at 2:00 a.m., who immediately responded. Police found Sanchez suffering three gunshot wounds, one of which was between his eyes. Sanchez died shortly after reaching the hospital Ballistics tests showed that Davis's pistol fired the fatal shots. Davis was arrested after the Moore murder which occurred about midnight on the day after Sanchez's murder. Davis told police he had the pistol under his control or possession during the time surrounding both murders and that he had not loaned his pistol or his automobile to anyone during that time.