MAN I MISS MY BROTHER.....THE DAY THEY TOOK YOU AWAY FROM US IS STILL UNREAL....I HID YOUR OBITUARY AND UR T-SHIRT JUST SO I WON'T REMEMBER THIS DAY. I STILL THINK YOUR GONNA CALL ME SOON N BE LIKE  "BLACKY WHAT U DOING?" "DARKNESS, WHERE YOU AT?"......I MISS YOU BROTHER...I REALLY DO....I REMEMBER BACK WHEN I WAS IN HIGH-SCHOOL I USE TO HEAR THE GIRLS SAYING HOW THEY LIKED YOU AND I WOULD GET SUPER MAD ALMOST READY TO FIGHT...YEA U WON EVERYBODY OVER WITH THAT SMILE.....U AND THEM 2 FRONT GOLD FRAMES....LOL (BUT I BET YAL DIDNT KNOW HE HAD THEM FRAMES CUZ HIM AND MARK WAS PLAYIN AND HE CHIPPED HIS FRONT TOOTH N HALF) LOL....SORRY JR I HAD TO BUST YOU OUT....BUT HE GOT THEM FIXED THO....LOL...MAN IMMA MISS U...EVERY NOW AND THEN I GET TEARY EYED BUT I KNOW U IN A MUCH BETTER PLACE AND UR WATCHING OVER ALL OF US. DEKARI LOOK MORE N MORE LIKE YOU THE OLDER HE GET....FATMAN! WELL IMMA CHERISH ALL THE MEMORIES WE HAVE OF YOU AND STILL BELIEVE THIS DAY NEVER EXISTED....I WAS JUST TELLING CRECIA HOW I WAS ALL YAL TEST DUMMY....REMEMBER WHEN YOU WAS PLAYING WITH THE LIGHTER AND SET MY HAIR ON FIRE....TALKIN BOUT GETTING A WHOOPIN....LOL YOU GOT TOW' UP....BUT THAT DIDNT EVEN STOP YOU....WEEKS LATER YOU PLAYING WITH A LIGHTER AGAIN AND THIS TIME YOU TOOK THE HOT LIGHTER AND STUCK IT ON MY ARM.....LOL I STILL GOT THE BRUISE AND SHAKE MY HEAD EVERYTIME I LOOK @ IT. THEN VENECIA CALL HERSELF BEING A BEAUTICIAN AND FRY MY HAIR WITH THE PRESS N COMB GOLD.....LMAO MAMA CAME AND TOW' HER UP! THOES WAS THE GOOD OLE' DAYS! WELL I LOVE YOU AND WILL FOREVER MISS YOU BUT I KNOW WE WILL ALL MEET AGAIN.....NOW YOU AUNT RUBYLEE ROBERT N GRANDMA ELLA CAN REST IN PEACE 

I remember my Grandma Ruby use to be scraping down Camillia in her white van (kidnapping the grand children literally) lol.. I recall the times we use to go to the lake and have breakfast picnics and JR would be sooo upset that he was the only boy and had to do all of the hard work : ) My grandma would give JR such a hard time and we would just laugh and tease him. On the way home we would all be laughing (JR included) about how silly Grandma Ruby could be.

The boy was ALways smiling. He loved his family and always wanted to see us together. I could go on and on about JR and the CAMILLIA days over at my cousin Tasha and Byron's house. We were always getting into something. Into our adult years, we all laughed about it. Its laughter that I remember the most and will forever cherish the memories.

God is good and will always be there to bestow a precious peace upon our hearts when we need it the most. This is not the work or the will of God, this is simply the ignorance of mankind and all we need to do is pray and be there for one another! 

Much love,

ya lil cousin MeMe

I have a fond memory of J.R. I was sitting in church one sunday< and he tapped me on my shoulder to ask for a pen. I gave it to him, he started writting down the msg that pastor was delivering!!!! Another was one day he didnt come to church,but he came to church to pay his tithes!!!! I know for sure J.R. deposited something in his bank in heaven....  Kiesha

TO STELLA & RAY MY HEART GOES OUT TO YOU. I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU FEEL BECAUSE I HAVE'NT LOST A CHILD THE FEELING OF LOST AN PAIN IS UNDESCRIBEABLE AN IN TIME IT WILL GET BETTER. BUT ONE THINGS FOR SURE JR HAD CHANGE AN BECAME A BETTER MAN. I HAVE SO MANY MEMORIES OF HIM BUT THE ONE THING THAT I'M GOIN TO MISS ABOUT HIM  IS HOW YOU ALL WERE VERY IMPORTANT TO HIM. VENECIA REMEMBER WHAT I TOLD YOU BE STRONG HE WOULD'IT  WANT IT ANY OTHER WAY. AN TO THE PERSON OR PEOPLE THAT TOOK HIS LIFE REMEMBER THIS GOD IS COMIN FOR YOU......R.I.P RONALD RAY DAVIS JR (B.K.A) DOLLA

This tragedy has caused me to recall so much about JR. When we lived on Gaillardia me and my brother were not supposed to have company when my Dad wasn't home but my brother had just got his Sega Genesis and invited JR over to play. My Dad came home early from work and JR snuck out the back door. When my Dad came in the house, we looked out the window to see if JR made it and saw that head flying down the street standing up on that bike not looking back... You know a lot of black men get locked up and say when they get out they going to get married, go to church, get a real job etc... But this man actually did all those things and did them with a huge infectious smile. I know that JR truly loved God because I stood across the street with him and Transparent while he witnessed to brothers from our community in a way that only he could. I know that he loved his daughters because the morning after the sleepover he called to talk to them and had Alexus cheesin talkin 'bout "JR taking us shopping!" I KNOW that he is in heaven gettin his praise on like he did here with us. He went from being my brothers potna to my brother in Christ. God made him greater. My condolences to JR's entire family for I know that your pain and sense of loss is far superior to mine. Be strong and courageous... for the Lord your God goes with you he will never leave you Nor forsake you. (Deut. 31:6)

PEOPLE DONT THINK YOU CAN HAVE BOYS FOR BEST FRIENDS...I HAD FOUR(J.R.,MYKE,JASON & JR.)

I HAVE SO MUCH TO SAY,BUT DONT HAVE THE SLIGHTEST IDEA WHERE TO START.....FROM HIM BEIN THE GO BETWEEN ME & MARK, HIM & LEXI ARGUING,OUR MOMS WORKING TOGETHER..ECT. I KNOW ONE STORY MY SISTER JUST MADE ME REMEMBER BRINGING IN 2008(NEW YEAR) TOGETHER @LOFT 11!! WE ALL HUGGED LIKE WE AINT SEEN EACH OTHER IN YEARSSSS.. WHICH WAS TRUE , SINCE HAD MOVED TO BERKELEY,I DIDNT COME BACK TO E.P.A VERY OFTEN..AND IM MAD I DIDNT..GOD BLESS THIS FAMILY..BRING SOME JUSTICE OUT OF THIS CRIME!!! I LOVE YOU ALL

There's just not enough space to write all the good times and memories about my cousin.. my FIRST cousin.. Jr, I love you dearly.. you  ALWAYS kept it but it can't rain forever.. the sun will shine again... and when it does.. I'll know that's you cuzzo.. real whether I wanted to hear it or not.. Man those times riding in the lexus riding in circles around the town just talking.. Or should I use your words "lacing me" LOL.. I needed every bit of what  you told me.. and I'll never forget everytime you saw me you would be like "Whats up Ika..  come over here and give me a hug  blood".. I admire you as a man entirely. Respect? You had that... MORALS?.. you had that too.. a FAMILY MAN?.. you were.. now THAT I witnessed. I thank GOD for blessing us all with your presence for the short time we had it.. Boy was it short.. but I also know we aren't supposed to question God and what he does.. so I guess I gotta roll with the punches right? This is just too much.. too much tragedy over such a short span of  time..

Love you forever more.. XoXoXo

First it was J.R. and Jr., then J.R. and Mark....When they were little damn we couldn't get rid of them. Some bad asses on Camellia and at Brentwood, all you ever heard was them Davis boys is in trouble in the office again. Wow to watch you all grow up was extraordinary because till this day ya'll are still good friends and not to mention family! On Saturday I had just saw you J.R. and there was that big smile, everyone's use to. We said What's up and that then if I knew that would have been the last time I'd see you, I would have stopped and gave you a big hug. I'm missing you Ronald as I knew you best, because you were like that lil brother of mines too! To your sisters whom are like my own, I'm sending big prayers your way, because I'd never thought something like this would hit so close to home. Ms. Stella got her groove back, I love you the most, cause I can't bare the thought of loosing a child! Loving and missing you always J.R., your C-block family! 

JR...My God...I will never forget you! Stella brought you to grams house not even 2 months old, I held you and never wanted to stop holding you.  I was 10 years old! You always wanting to hang with me because the other two knuckle heads did (Mark and Tony), everytime I let you.  I could never turn down that million dollar smile!  I watched you grow up to a very respectable young man and everytime I saw you I always told you to be good or ELSE...and everytime you would say Dreamteam I am! I knew you were, but I just had to make you remember I was STILL the big cousin no matter how BIG you got!

You know it wouldn't be me not to pull out old school pictures of you, so don't be mad when you see them, just give me that million dollar smile and keep shining on us all!

I love you so much cousin!  Thank you for always supporting me and looking our for me!

Always your "Dreamteam"

(Drina)

JR ALWAYS HAD A SMILE ON HIS FACE NO MATTER WHAT HE WAS ALWAYS TRYING TO MAKE EVERYONE HAPPY NO WHAT THE SITUATION WAS. HE AND MOO WERE ALWAYS DOWN TO GO TO GO WITH ME AND J AND WE WERE ALWAYS DOWN TO CHILL WITH THEM. ONE OF MY MEMORIES WAS WHEN WE WENT TO MONTEREY FOR VALENTINES DAY AND ALL OF US HAD A BALL, MY OTHER MEMORY WAS ON HIS BIRTHDAY HE WAS SO EXCITED LIKE A KID. HE WILL BE FOREVER MISSED RIP JR WE LOVE YA

ALL I CAN REMEMBER IS HIS SMILE AND HIS LOVING WAYS. HE MADE SURE HE TOOK CARE OF HIS FAMILY ALWAYS. AND WHENEVA I CALLED HIM HE DID WHAT HE COULD FOR ME N MY KIDS. HE LOVED HIS WIFE AND KIDS THEY DID ALOT OF THINGS TOGETHER. WHEN MOO JR LEXIS N LISHA WALKED IN CHURCH DEKARI N CECE WENT STRAIGHT TO THEM MAN SHE LOVED HIM SOOOO MUCH WE ALL DID. I WILL NEVA FORGET THE TIMES WE SPENT TOGETHER LAUGHUNG PLAYING HANGING OUT AND THE TALKS WE HAD. MAN DAT WAS MY BIG BRA BRA MY RIGHT HAND MAN AND BROUGHT SO MUCH JOY TO THE FAMILY AS HE GREW CLOSER TO THE LORD AND DEDICATING TIME N EFFORT TO LIVING RIGHTEOUSLY. ALL HE TOLD ME WAS "TAKE CARE OF THEM KIDS" AND SAID CALL ME ANYTIME AND FOR ANYTHING. HE GAVE ME A HUG AND GAVE MY KIDS SOME MONEY AND PLAYED WIT CECE AND TALKED BOUT MY SON CHEEKS SO PHAT....HE LOVED HIS NIECE N NEWPHEW AND WE HAD A SPECIAL BOND MAN BUT I TALK TO HIM IN HEAVEN AND HE ALWAYS IN MY HEART . MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE AND MAY GOD PLEASE SEE ME THRU THIS TRAGIC LOSS....I KNOW ITS NOT THE EASIEST THING TO COPE WITH NEVA IMAGINED THIS DAY WOULD COME SO SOON HE DIDN'T DESERVE THIS AT ALL . MAN BRA I LOVE YA AND GOD GOT YOUR BACK AND JUSTICE WILL BE SEEKED. MOM N DAD SEND THEIR LOVE N TENDER SWEET HUGS N KISSES....

Man there are so many memories I have of Jr since day one I have known Jr. Our familes are very close knit. My fondest memories are of him as a kid. Jr and Mark tried they hardest to tag along with us all. There were times we sent them to the store just to dicth them and some how they would find us. It's hard to sit here and remininsce about him when we all assumed he was here until he was old and gray. Jr has touched many lives and he still lives on in those who knew him dearly.

its so many memories i dont know where to start. Jr was around me and my family since i was born.  He always used to see me walkin around with cousins in the "G" bein bad lol && him and my uncle mark staaaayed tryna get on my helmet lol .. everytime he saw me the 1st thing he would always say was "daaaang you look like drina" lol or would ask me if i needed anything.. memories are all we have to live with now but im thankful all of those memories are the best! JR will always be missed! they took a great man from those who loved him the most... Love u!

I HAVE SO MANY MEMORIES WITH JR THE LIST CAN GO ON AND ON FOR DAYS. JR WAS THE TYPE OF PERSON WHO WANTED TO SEE EVERYONE HAPPY NO MATTER IF IT WAS FAMILY OR FRIENDS EVEN SOMEONE HE HE DIDNT KNOW AS LONG AS U WITH HIM U WERE GOIN TO BE SMILING. ITS FUNNY HOW THINGS WORK OUT. IN HIGH SCHOOL JR GOT ON MY LAST NERVE CALLIN ME BETTY CROCKER CUZ OF MY HAIR CUT  I COULD NOT STAND HIM AND YEARS LATER HE BECAME LIKE A BROTHER TO ME AND IS NOW MY SONS GOD FATHER NEVER WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT IN A MILLION YEARS!!! MY BEST MEMORY OF JR HAS TO BE HIS BIRTHDAY PARTY B/C HE WAS SO HAPPY LIKE A LITTLE KID YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT HE WAS TURNING 5!!! *TEAR* THEY  DONT KNOW WHAT THEY DID WHEN THEY TOOK HIM AWAY!

I LOVE U JR SEE U SOON

WISH I COULD SEE U AT CHURCH SINGING I NEVER WOULD IT HAVE MADE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!