Charles Dontae Davis, 37, a Black male, was found shot multiple times in an alley near the 400 block of North Circle, just off East Twain Avenue and Paradise Road, on the evening of September 1, 2016. He was taken to Sunrise Hospital, where he died. The Clark County coroner identified him and ruled the death a homicide caused by multiple gunshot wounds.
Detectives traced the killing to a close-range shooting in that alleyway.
Months later, on January 17, 2017, an FBI fugitive task force found 24-year-old Oscar Ramirez-Infante at a nursery yard on the 2700 block of West Broadway in Anaheim, California. During the confrontation, authorities said Ramirez-Infante armed himself with a gardening tool; a Los Angeles Police Department officer on the task force shot him, and he was transported to a hospital, where he was listed in critical and then stable condition. Investigators said Ramirez-Infante was wanted in connection with Davis's slaying, and court documents showed he was wanted on one count of murder and one count of assault with a deadly weapon tied to the case.
In the aftermath, local reporting noted that Davis had been shot multiple times at close range and that his killing was among a surge of homicides that year. Even as the Anaheim shooting placed a named suspect in law enforcement's sights, early Metro statements around the time of the coroner's identification said no arrests had yet been made, underscoring the uncertainty that surrounded the investigation in its initial months.
