Constance Danyell “Connie” Davison, 37, a woman from Knoxville, Tennessee, was killed in a late-night shooting that drew police to a home on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue in East Knoxville. Around 11:45 p.m. on Saturday, May 22, 2021, officers arrived to find her unresponsive inside the residence with at least one gunshot wound. She was pronounced dead at the scene, turning an ordinary spring night into a homicide investigation marked by flashing lights, a taped-off doorway, and unanswered
questions about who had been with her in the final moments.
In the first hours after the gunfire, authorities said no one had been arrested or charged, even as the case landed amid a string of deadly violence that week in the area. The address, 2919 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, quickly became the fixed point of the investigation—an exact place and time that detectives could revisit, measure, and test, but not yet explain to the public. With so little confirmed beyond the fatal wound and the quiet house where she was found, the story initially unfolded as many do: a name released, a scene processed, and a community left waiting for the next update.
Away from the crime-scene language, Davison’s family described her in the way loved ones do when trying to gather a life into a few lines. Her obituary said she was born October 16, 1983, and that she was the daughter of Perry Louis Davison and Jackie Lynn Allison, both of whom had died before her. It named her daughter, Rajai Amia-Nicole Davison, among those left to cherish her memory, and noted funeral services held in early June 2021 at Jarnigan & Son Mortuary—details that sat in stark contrast to the sparse public facts about how her last night ended.
As the investigation matured, prosecutors later described what detectives believed happened inside that house, and why. The Knox County District Attorney’s Office said the evidence led them to Ronald Eugene Fox II, identified as Davison’s boyfriend, and framed the killing as the violent end of a relationship she wanted to leave behind. Investigators, the office said, interviewed Fox multiple times and concluded he had lied about his whereabouts; in their telling, he claimed he was not there when the shot was fired, but gunpowder residue on his clothing was cited as proof that he had been present. Prosecutors said Davison had been shot and killed in the laundry room of her home, a small domestic space that—according to the state’s account—became the center of the case.
The case ultimately moved from investigation to trial, and in May 2023 the District Attorney’s Office announced the outcome: Fox was convicted of First Degree Murder, Tampering with Evidence, and False Report. The office said Judge Steve Sword imposed a life sentence, and explained that under Tennessee law a life sentence requires serving 51 years before parole eligibility. The announcement also noted Fox’s prior felony convictions—Attempted Second Degree Murder, Facilitation of Aggravated Robbery, and Possession of a Weapon by a Convicted Felon—details prosecutors highlighted as the courtroom chapter closed on the killing they said began with a breakup.
Even after the life sentence, the legal process continued in the background through the appellate courts. Tennessee court records show the case proceeded on appeal in the Court of Criminal Appeals, with a notice of appeal filed in September 2024 and oral argument listed as heard on November 18, 2025—an echo of the same case, now argued in filings and courtrooms long after the night on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue.
