True Crime The Murder of Jordan Davis | The Loud Music Murders | Crime Scene and Grave

If you would like to support me on Patreon please visit Follow my Instagram If you would like to help support my travels and films you can PayPal me at Join my Facebook group Scottontape #truecrime #jordandavis #loudmusic #truecrimestories #truecrimeyoutubers Music: “Visible“ by Infraction Music promoted by Inaudio: On November 23, 2012, Jordan Davis, a black 17-year-old high-school student, was murdered at a Gate Petroleum gas station in Jacksonville, Florida, by Michael David Dunn, a white 45-year-old software developer, following an argument over loud music played by Davis and his three friends, in what was believed to be a racially motivated shooting. Dunn and his fiancée Rhonda Rouer traveled from their home in Brevard County to attend Dunn’s son’s wedding in Orange Park, near Jacksonville, Florida. Dunn and Rouer left the wedding early in order to return to their hotel and take care of their six-month-old puppy. On the way back to their hotel, the two decided to stop at the Gate Petroleum gas station to purchase a bottle of wine. Tommie Stornes, Leland Brunson, Jordan Davis, and Tevin Thompson had been spending the day traveling to various malls when they decided to go to the Gate Petroleum gas station in order to buy gum and cigarettes. The shooting of Jordan Davis took place in Jacksonville in Duval County. Around 7:30 p.m., four teenage boys (Leland Brunson, Jordan Davis, Tommie Stornes, and Tevin Thompson) stopped at a Gate Petroleum gas station. Stornes left his red Dodge Durango SUV running while he went into the store. Brunson, Davis, and Thompson remained in the vehicle listening to music that was described as “very loud.“ Dunn, driving a black Volkswagen Jetta sedan, and his fiancée Rhonda Rouer pulled into the right adjacent parking spot. Rouer left their car to purchase white wine and chips. She testified that Dunn told her “I hate that thug music“ before she left the car for the store, although Dunn claims that he used the phrase “rap crap.“ The bass from the loud music playing in the teens’ SUV annoyed Dunn, who asked for it to be turned down. The front seat passenger, Tevin Thompson, initially complied and turned the volume down, but Jordan Davis requested that the volume be turned back up. As Stornes returned to the SUV, Davis’s protests continued, and an independent witness overheard Dunn say “No, you’re not gonna talk to me that way.“ Dunn, who had a concealed weapons permit, took a handgun out of his glove compartment and started firing at Davis’s door, hitting him in the legs, lungs, and aorta. As the SUV backed up to evade his gunshots, Dunn opened his own door and continued firing at the car in shooter’s stance, as the boys ducked for cover. Dunn later testified that he still feared for his safety as well as that of Rouer, who was to return to the vehicle imminently. After the shooting, Stornes drove the SUV away to a nearby parking lot and stopped to find Davis “gasping for air“. Rouer returned to Dunn’s car. They returned to their hotel where they ordered pizza. Dunn did not contact the police. The next morning, Rouer saw a TV news report about the shooting, which indicated that Jordan Davis had died. Dunn testified that, on the drive home, he called a neighbor who worked in law enforcement to arrange to speak to him about the shooting, but phone records indicate that the neighbor actually called him, and Rouer testified that the shooting was never mentioned during the call. At 10:30 a.m. the following day, Dunn returned to his home in Satellite Beach, where he was arrested after an eyewitness reported his license-plate number to police. After his arrest, Dunn claimed that Davis had threatened him with a “gun or a stick“. Dunn’s fiancée, who served as an adversarial witness at the trial, said that no such item was mentioned to her at any point. Investigators later searched the teenagers’ SUV and found no weapons. Forensic scientists determined that, in the short distance that the boys traveled, a weapon could not have been stashed in a place that would not have been visible immediately to crime scene investigators. Contrary to Dunn’s claim that he mentioned a weapon to Rouer, she testified that he never mentioned a gun either that night or the next day. On February 15, 2014, after more than 30 hours of deliberation, the jury found Dunn guilty on the three counts of attempted murder. The jury could not reach an agreement on the charge of first-degree murder, and the judge declared a mistrial on that count. Former Florida state attorney Angela Corey stated that her office would seek a retrial for this charge. Dunn was found guilty on October 1, 2014, at the conclusion of the retrial. Dunn was given a sentence of life in prison without parole plus 90 years.