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Homicide victim Carroll Thomas “Big Jr.” Davis, with Princess, his Pomeranian.
The tiny home at 21775 Evergreen Mills Road in Leesburg where Carroll Thomas “Big Jr.” Davis was killed on or around Sept. 30. Friends and family said Davis spent a year building the home which he’d lived in about five years.
Homicide victim Carroll Thomas “Big Jr.” Davis, with Princess, his Pomeranian.
The tiny home at 21775 Evergreen Mills Road in Leesburg where Carroll Thomas “Big Jr.” Davis was killed on or around Sept. 30. Friends and family said Davis spent a year building the home which he’d lived in about five years.
This story has been updated to include information from the criminal complaint.
Besides grieving his loss, the family of homicide victim Carroll Thomas Davis is angry that suspect Mario Rob Hernandez-Navarrate was free on bond when Davis was killed on or around Sept. 30 in Leesburg.
Hernandez-Navarrate was arrested and charged in Fairfax County with robbery, possession of drugs and two counts of possession with intent to distribute on July 27, according to court records. On Aug. 5 in Fairfax General District Court, Judge Susan L. Stoney freed Hernandez-Navarrate on a $3,000 unsecured bond under supervised release. Defendants receiving unsecured bonds don’t have to post a portion of the bond in exchange for their release, but owe all of the money if they fail to appear at their next court date.
A prosecutor recommended keeping Hernandez-Navarrate jailed, but Stoney overruled the request, according to an email from J. David Gardy, a Fairfax assistant commonwealth’s attorney. He didn’t identify the prosecutor. Stoney and attorney Martin M. Mooradian, who represented Hernandez-Navarrate, couldn’t be reached for comment about the rationale for the release. However, Davis’ nephew, Niheem Shaheed, said Hernandez-Navarrate shouldn’t have been released.
“I feel that judge should be held responsible because she went against the prosecutor and let him out and now my uncle is dead,” Shaheed said. “I feel something needs to be done about that.”
Lisa Davis, Carroll Davis’ older sister, said her brother had been dating Hernandez-Navarrate about three months. She said when she last spoke with her brother on Sept. 26, he said Hernandez-Navarrate told him he didn’t want to go to court in Fairfax where he was scheduled to appear that day. Davis said she had only met Hernandez-Navarrate once and said there was no indication of tension between her brother and Hernandez-Navarrate.
Hernandez-Navarrate was apprehended on Interstate 66 in Fairfax County by Virginia State Police after a non-life threatening, two-vehicle crash while driving Davis’ 2017 Mercedes around 7:30 a.m. on Sept. 30, according to VSP spokesman Corinne N. Geller. He allegedly rear-ended a vehicle that had slowed for traffic. Hernandez-Navarrate was being held without bond at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center on Wednesday.
Hernandez-Navarrate, a 19-year-old Herndon resident, faces second-degree murder and auto theft charges in Loudoun County. Michele Bowman, a Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman, said deputies went to Davis’ home for a welfare check after he didn’t arrive for work.
Detective Sean P. McCormack wrote in a criminal complaint that an autopsy showed Davis died from multiple stab wounds to his chest and neck. He said a bloody fingerprint on the sliding glass door handle of Davis' home matched fingerprints on file for Hernandez-Navarrate from a previous arrest.
McCormack said when Hernandez-Navarrate was interrogated, he admitted to being alone with Davis at Davis' home in the early morning hours of Sept. 30 and to driving Davis' Mercedes at the time of the crash. McCormack said Hernandez-Navarrate had Davis' identification and an injury to his right hand after the crash.
"The accused was found with multiple injuries that were consistent with a physical altercation, not a vehicle crash," McCormack wrote. "Furthermore, the accused had suspected dried blood on his feet and under his fingernails."
The 62-year-old Davis, known as “Big Jr.” to friends and family, was a cosmetologist who styled hair for some 40 years and owned Jr’s Perfect Image, a hair salon in Herndon. He was working in rented space in another salon at the time of his death. Davis grew up in Herndon, Oak Grove, Reston and Sterling and attended Herndon High School.
Friends and relatives described him as a colorful person and loyal friend who loved to dance and write and adored Princess, his Pomeranian who he owned for 15 years. After Princess died about a year ago, Davis got another Pomeranian named Prada who was home when police say he was killed.
Davis lived in a tiny house that he spent a year building at 21775 Evergreen Mills Road. He moved in about five years ago.
Tammie Fitts, 56, met Davis in 1976 and said building the house fulfilled a lifelong dream Davis had to own a home. She said he was like a big brother to her and was her protector.
“He was loving and caring, kind and funny, a jokester,” said Fitts who said she was Davis’ best friend. “More important than anything, he was loyal.”
Over 200 people, many of them Davis’ customers, expressed condolences on the Lisa Ellis’ Facebook page.
“He knew so many people and once you met him, you just loved him,” Ellis said. “He had that type of personality. He was very memorable.”
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Another story update needed: Didn't an editor notice the glaring dangling modifier in the lead? Sheesh!
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