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The Phoenix woman accused of murdering a cab driving on Friday morning hid evidence — including the alleged murder weapon and a plastic bag full of underwear — in a dishwasher in her apartment, court documents obtained by New Times show.
Corletha Sherie Davis, 33, told officers she had nothing to do with the murder of 37-year-old Brian Mann, a driver for Discount Cab. Some of the stuff cops found in her boyfriend’s apartment suggest otherwise.
When Davis was arrested, she was wearing a white tee-shirt and gray
shorts. However, a witness who watched Mann fall out of the driver’s
seat of the cab with gunshot wounds to his neck, and then saw Davis get
out of a rear door, told police he saw a woman with
long, dark hair and wearing a red sweat-shirt and black
pants, get out of the cab and walk towards the Highland Park Apartments
following the shooting.
After that same witness took a look at Davis back at the police station,
he said “the face looked right, but the hair was longer.”
Cops served a warrant at the apartment of Davis’ boyfriend, where she
allegedly went immediately following the shooting, and found nothing of
much evidentiary value — until they looked in the dishwasher.
Inside, police found a red, hooded sweatshirt, black pants, a bra and
underwear wrapped in a plastic bag, and a gun consistent in caliber with
shell casings found at the murder scene.
We have a feeling Davis’ boyfriend is probably a little curious as to
why his girlfriend showed up at his apartment at 6 a.m. with her
underwear wrapped in a plastic bag, but we’ll let them sort that out.
Davis has been charged with second-degree murder. Her bond was set at $1 million.