In Terry Wallace's "Texas slaying suspect escapes hospital, surrenders" he informs his audience of the tragedy of Shania Gray and the impact of the tragic on Shania's family and friends.
Sherry James, the mother of 16-year-old Shania Gray, reported Shania missing on Friday, September 7th 2012, in Carrollton, Texas, when she never came home from school on the previous Thursday. An Amber Alert was never issued by police because it did not meet the criteria and there was no evidence she was in danger.
30-year-old Franklin Davis was arrested, and is being held on a $2 million dollar bond, for the murder of Shania Gray. Gray had a pending sexual assault case against Davis, and Terry believes that "he killed her to silence her." When Davis confessed, he told police that he gained Gray’s trust by posing as someone else on social internet profiles and using a prepaid phone. He convinced her to meet him at the school on the Thursday she was murdered. Gray got into Davis’ car, surprised to see him, then they drove to the trail head at Champion Trail. Davis told her he wanted to talk about the sexual assault case. Once at the trail head, Davis and Gray went down the trail to Trinity River, where Davis shot Gray twice with a .380 pistol. He then strangled her with his foot. Davis confessed to killing Shania Gray and led police to various locations to reveal evidence.
Terry gathers that "The murder left family and friends of Gray devastated. 10th grader Destinee Harris said that Gray had a huge effect on her friends in her two years at Horn High."
As tragic as this incident is, it serves a valuable lesson; first, don't meet up with just any body on the Internet, they might be real or they might now be real, and second, don't ever get into a car or go off alone with a stranger, especially a stranger that's sexually harassed you.
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