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MILLCREEK — Two brothers are facing felony charges accusing them of lying to police about what they knew about a 2021 killing involving a cousin who is a former Public Enemy No.1 of the Metro Gang Unit.
Royce Bernard Davis, 36, of Herriman, was charged Thursday in 3rd District Court with two counts of obstructing justice, a second-degree felony. And London Giovanni Davis, 34, also of Herriman, was charged with one count of obstruction of justice, a second-degree felony, on Friday.
Terence Trent Vos, 33, of Salt Lake City, shot his girlfriend, 32-year-old Shandon Nicole Scott, 12 times before crashing his car on I-80 and leaving Scott's body in the vehicle as he ran on May 1, 2021, according to charging documents. He was arrested a short time later.
"Through investigative efforts, detectives determined that the shooting had actually occurred outside of a residence at 737 Nibley View Court in Salt Lake County," according to charging documents.
Detectives responded to that address where the Davis brothers were living at the time. Royce Davis, who is Vos' cousin, told police "he didn't know anything about the shooting and didn't hear anything. Royce said he had gone to bed early and didn't see Terence or his brother London Giovanni Davis ... at all that night," according to charging documents.
Neighbors, however, told police that they heard gunshots and saw Royce Davis approach the car Vos and Scott were in, the charges state. When detectives attempted to search Davis' phone, they reported that it "had been factory reset."
Likewise, London Davis "claimed that he didn't know anything about the shooting and didn't talk to Terence at all that night," according to court documents.
But in March, police said they were able to extract a voice recording on Vos' phone from the night of the shooting.
"The message started with several gunshots and the voice (the detective) recognized as London's asking, 'Did you just shoot her?' Another voice that (the detective) recognized as Terence's responded, 'Hell yeah she's dead,'" the charges state.
London Davis is then allegedly heard on the recording telling Vos he won't let him take his mom's car, and calls out to his brother saying that Vos just shot his girlfriend.
"London then told Royce to give Terence his keys so he could leave. London was then heard saying, 'T-Bone just shot Shandon,'" according to the charges.
When Royce Davis was questioned again by police on Tuesday, he claimed he was scared that night and went inside the house and locked the door and didn't hear his brother tell him that Vos had shot his girlfriend, the charges state. But after police played the phone recording to him, Davis admitted he went outside his residence after hearing the gunshots and told Vos, "'You have to get her to the hospital blood.' Royce said he saw Shandon in the car and it 'scared the living (expletive) out of him,'" the charges state.
Royce Davis is charged with two counts of obstruction for allegedly lying to police in 2021 and again on Tuesday.
Vos is charged with aggravated murder, aggravated robbery, possession of a weapon by a restricted person, and three counts of discharge of a firearm, all first-degree felonies. He is also a former Public Enemy No. 1 of the Salt Lake Metro Gang Unit. He has been arrested in the past in connection with several shootings in Salt Lake City, and was twice convicted of discharging a gun from the freeway in 2006. He was on parole at the time of Scott's death.
His next court hearing is scheduled for April 24.
