A 61-year-old Florida man confessed to murdering his wife to West Palm Beach police detectives (WPBPD) immediately after being released from the Broward County Main Jail a week ago from unrelated charges. He was rebooked into the Broward facility on that day.
However, Thursday night, the suspect was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail to face the first-degree charge of murdering his wife.
Recently released court records tell previously unknown details of the violent crime committed by Keith Antonio Davis upon his 49-year-old wife, Sonya Evette White, like how the couple was high on crack cocaine during the killing, according to the arrest report and his own confession.
White’s daughter, Shanae Larose, filed a missing person’s report to West Palm Beach police on September 25.
She claimed it was “out of the ordinary” and “very suspicious” of her mother to not answer phone calls and text messages. Two days later, Larose, a locksmith, and WPBPD officers went to White’s home off North Congress Avenue.
Conducting a welfare check on Larose’s mother, officers entered the home and discovered her dead in the kitchen with stab wounds and a large knife lying on her chest. White’s husband was reportedly nowhere to be found.
This is because Davis was in custody at the Broward jail.
Before investigators found this out, they determined there was no signs of forced entry into White’s apartment, but there were signs of a struggle, the affidavit said. Officials determined the woman was strangled by her purse strap and stabbed at least twice in the chest.
Two days after finding White’s body, WPBPD officers discovered Davis was arrested by the Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO).
The same day as this discovery, on September 29, the husband was set to be released, so West Palm Beach detectives waited for him in the jail’s lobby. Upon seeing them, Davis turned around, put his hands behind his back and said two words.
“Let’s go,” the man told officers.
While walking with Davis, a WPBPD detective was secretly recording him when the suspect prematurely confessed.
“It was all an accident, that incident with my wife,” Davis said.
The husband was escorted back to the BSO so WPBPD detectives could obtain a warrant for his clothing. A blood-like substance was found on the clothes, according to the affidavit. Davis reportedly told a detective he would talk but wanted a cigarette first.
After his smoke, he confessed without an attorney present.
The husband and wife were smoking crack cocaine on September 24 when she began demanding he leave. Davis covered her mouth with his hand to silence her, wrapped her purse strap around her neck and choked her until she was dead, the affidavit said.
Next, Davis sat down to watch television, went back to her body after a short time and stabbed her with a kitchen knife.
“I did what I had to do, because she had pulled same knife on me before,” the man said in his confession to detectives.
Davis attended his first appearance hearing Friday morning and is being held without bond.
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