NASHVILLE, Tenn- The family of a missing Nashville teen is grieving from the news they feared all week. Kendrya Davis,18, was killed and left in abandoned home in North Nashville.
After a week long search Metro Police finally found Kendrya's body inside a house at 1104 Cass Street right across from John Early Middle School in North Nashville. As detectives pulled her body out on a stretcher, members of the community made an impromptu prayer circle for the victim's family.
"It is really a sad situation, and the family can have closure in at least knowing where the body was located," said Alexis Lewis who stopped at the site on her way to church.
Police have been searching for the teen since last Wednesday when her mother reported her missing. They focused in on this area after Kendrya's mother received a phone call saying that her daughter had been shot and killed and left in an abandoned house in North Nashville. Metro Police have been patrolling and searching ever since. Just as two detectives were about to wrap up the search around 4:30 in the morning on Sunday, they went to one last vacant home. "Upon entry they went from one room to another Sergeant Pastiglione pulled down a sheet separating one room from another and discovered the body of Kendrya Davis," said Metro spokesperson Don Aaron.
Kendrya's mother, Beverly Sutton, said her daughter disappeared last Monday after getting into a fight with her ex boyfriend, Jose Hall, 19. She was last seen at the downtown bus depot where she texted Sutton saying that she was headed to her brother's house in South Nashville. She never showed up.
Police named Hall as a person of interest and were trying to contact him all week, but was being uncooperative with the investigation. Hall had a warrant out for his arrest after he failed to show up in court on Thursday for a trespassing charge. Police said Hall turned himself in for that warrant overnight, and they were able to question him about Davis' disappearance. "He claimed to have no knowledge in fact Hall provided no information whatsoever as to the whereabouts," said Aaron.
During an interview with Sutton on Thursday she said she thinks Hall is involved in some way. "I honestly think that if he doesn't have anything to do with it he knows something," she told NewsChannel 5.
Hall is being held on a $20,000 bond for the unrelated charge. Police say he remains a person of interest. The medical examiner is performing an autopsy on Davis Monday to determine a cause of death.
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