Franklin Davis, 30, posed as a teenager on
Facebook to meet up with 16-year-old Shania Gray after school. Within an hour
of Davis picking her up, cops said, she was dead.
Franklin B. Davis was accused of raping Shania Gray two
years ago.
He is now charged with her murder after he told cops he
picked the 16-year-old up from school and killed her. Her family says he did it
so she wouldn’t testify at his trial.
Shania claimed that Davis raped her while she babysat his
two kids, and threatened to kill her if she told anyone.
She did tell someone — her grandmother — and Davis, 30,
was eventually charged with four counts of sexual assault of a child.
He plotted to meet Shania at her Irving high school
Thursday afternoon by posing on Facebook as a teenager in her social circle who
had a crush on her, the Dallas Morning News reported.
“The trial was coming up in October and I think he
didn’t want her to testify,” said Sherry Ramsey, a friend of Shania’s mother
who spoke on the family’s behalf.
“She definitely wouldn’t have talked to him if she knew
who he was,” she added.
But she got into his car and he drove away. Irving
police spokesman Jon Stovall said Davis killed her at a local park her within
an hour of picking her up.
16-year-old Shania Ambriehl Gray from
Carrollton, Texas, said Franklin Davis raped her when she was babysitting his
two kids.
Shania’s parents reported her missing early Friday. Her
body was found dumped in a river Saturday, and cops recovered the .38 caliber
pistol that killed her from a nearby pond.
Davis was arrested Friday on a traffic warrant. When
cops grilled him about his connection to Shania, he confessed to the shocking
murder, police said.
He was charged Sunday with capital murder. Cops believe
he acted alone