Ex-Boyfriend Convicted in Woman’s Murder

Dec. 2, 2021 – A jury Thursday convicted a Parkway Village man in a 2015 domestic violence incident in which he shot his way into an apartment, killed his former girlfriend, and threatened another woman and her four young children, said Shelby County Dist. Atty. Gen. Amy Weirich.

    The Criminal Court jury convicted Antonio R. Davis, 33, of first-degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated robbery, and aggravated burglary. He will receive an automatic life sentence for the murder and will be sentenced in January on the other two offenses by Judge Glenn Wright.

    Witnesses said that on Dec. 29, 2015, Davis showed up at a Hickory Ridge-area apartment where his former girlfriend, Lakeyel Hurd, 26, was staying temporarily with a friend.  

    Davis forced his way into the apartment after shooting through a sliding glass door, striking Hurd in the abdomen. As her friend was tending to her injury, Davis stood over both women and threatened to shoot Hurd’s friend if she did not tell him who Hurd had been seeing.

   Davis then shot Hurd several more times, including three times in the head, killing her. When the friend ran to a bedroom to protect her four children, Davis followed and pointed his gun at her and her one-year-old child she was holding.

   Davis took the woman’s cell phone as he left so she could not call police. He was arrested two weeks later by federal marshals who had tracked him to a motel in Goodlettsville just north of Nashville.

   The trial was handled by Asst. Dist. Attys. Jeff Jones and Austin Scofield.

   Jones is assigned to the District Attorney’s Special Prosecution Unit 8 which seeks maximum sentencing for repeat felony offenders.

   Scofield is a member of the District Attorney’s Crime Strategies & Narcotics Prosecution Unit which handles violent crime and drug trafficking cases.